Word: aptness
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...this," said Lenore Hershey, the only woman among the magazine's three managing editors, "is not competent to put out a magazine." Yet the Journal's slogan has long been, "Never Underestimate the Power of a Woman." At week's end?to editors everywhere?it had never seemed so apt...
Confetti, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is, among other things, a "plaster bonbon." The definition is cruelly apt as a description of Gerald Arpino's creation, which turns three couples loose to the overture of Rossini's Semiramide. Arpino's brilliant passages of dance invention and his dancers' great innovative skills leave the music behind. The ballet becomes a mere gymnastic feat. Solarwind is different-not a confection gone slickly sour but a modish sci-fi convention pursued without rhyme or reason. In a cosmic mood, Arpino sends his dancers blasting around the stage...
...that name, going around, American audiences accept it because it has a vague respectability-by-association with Neo-Realist methods. This "aesthetic" says that instead of enlivening a slow script with some action and character development, the director should exploit its opportunities for pointless camera essays. Bullitt is an apt example. All scenes last unbearably long because Peter Yates, its "director," didn't know what to do with a slick script except stretch its banality a little further. You a paying audience, are offered fat sequences of self-conscious camerawork, which having nothing better to do than look...
Westerners accustomed to the atmosphere of improvisation at U.S. or French demonstrations are apt to find the Japanese protest scene quite different. Clashes between helmeted students and shield-carrying riot cops seem as stylized?and puzzling?as a No play. Moreover, the rioters, often led by members of the radical Zengakuren (a student federation), are usually higher on doctrine than drugs (pot has yet to spread far in Japan). Before long, however, Japanese dissent may be taking on a Western character...
TIME'S PEOPLE section no longer begins with the phrase "Names make news," but the aphorism is still apt for the entire magazine. To report events and the underlying issues is our main mission; in fact, during highly complex times, issues and ideas are more important than ever. But TIME'S editors and writers also constantly strive to tell their stories in terms of people. They look for the grand gestures and the little affectations that make a characterization live. The dramatis personae this week feature Sister Anita Caspary and Former Bishop James P. Shannon, who symbolize...