Word: aptness
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...rights a film of the Sacco-Vanzetti affair should have been a natural. History provided everything--racism, repression, corruption in high places, the execution of innocents. Given the least bit of subtlety and finesse, a contemporary retelling of the episode could have been both popular and politically apt. As it is, Giuliano Montaldo has directed a sloppy and sentimentalized muddle of a film...
...target organs. Instead, they trigger the production of cyclic AMP, which in turn regulates body functions, increasing the rate at which some take place, slowing down the rate of others. "I like to call it a second messenger," said Sutherland of AMP. Subsequent research showed that his description is apt. Studies have established, for example, that when adrenaline output is increased by fear or anxiety, it is not the adrenaline itself that speeds up the heart; rather, the adrenaline activates cyclic AMP, which stimulates the heartbeat...
...Sort of Life is a wonderfully apt title for Graham Greene's autobiography. Its detached, tentative sadness typifies the way Greene has viewed the world in his novels, plays, and essays over the past forty years, and exactly fits the attitude he takes towards the telling of his own story. It's almost too apt: we who do not live as intensely may feel that Greene's style and philosophy, like Lawrence's, verge on self parody; but this is the way Greene understands the universe, and this is the way he must write about it. A Sort of Life...
Columbia's quarterback, Don Jackson, must have been wondering where he had gone wrong in life last Saturday. First, he chose to attend a school where just going to practice means risking a mugging on the subway, where students are more apt to be interested in their next fix than the football hero's blond hair and passing statistics, and where the football team was voted "the worst college football team in America" the year Jackson matriculated...
...without assurance of enough room for extensive textual justification and a good deal of hedging; Levenson's short essay on the "self-vivisection" of these three writers in search of a sensibility uses brief quotations to launch his fast-paced, nine-part analysis. The spirit of the essay is apt, but the dialectic Levenson sets up between the styles of this new fiction and the conventional style of the old is tentative and needs a more complete working out of the basis for contrast...