Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indonesia's Suharto is a shrewd pragmatist, but he is also a man who grew up amid the Moslem, Hindu and animist influences of central Java. He frequently plans strategy with military men on the golf course, listens to his impressive array of American-trained economists, and keeps abreast of current trends via tape-recorded textbooks. Suharto also relies on his spiritual advisers. Since his youth, he has consulted an influential mystical teacher, Raden Mas Darjatmo, who serves as a combination dukun, kebatinan (medium) and guru. Suharto often seeks out his old dukun when he visits his home village...
...Angela Lansbury, as the Countess, wins honors hands down as the film's principal asset. She not only parades around in a dazzling array of black and/or white costumes, but also dominates several of the most clever scenes in the film. Whether insulting her lesbian attendant, or shrieking for fine strawberries, or flamboyantly embracing the quest for money, Lansbury brings to her part the exaggerated theatricality which came off so well in Prince's Mame. After announcing her engagement to Conrad, she takes her fat daughter aside and says: "I was thinking of pink for the bridesmaids, but really...
...Yorker, writing the short, uncategorizable comic pieces which gave him his reputation, and thirty-two of which constitute Baby, it's Cold Inside. These pieces rely not so much on characters or situations but on the comic possibilities of words themselves. Perelman is a master of a bewildering array of trite and overused literary styles, and has a vocabulary the size of Webster's Unabridged. Above all, he knows precisely when to use the obscure word, the foreign phrase, or the outlandish simile for maximum effect...
...further indicator that the regime may outlast pessimists' predictions is the army, which has grown from 35,000 to 140,000 men. It is still a ragtag force, ill equipped with a bewildering array of Communist and American weapons. But, as it demonstrated in its recent relief of Kompong Thom and its stand at Taing Kauk, the army is capable of slugging it out with the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong...
...triumph of precision over power. His opponent in the finals was fellow Aussie Tony Roche, 25, a hard-driving lefthander who was no older than a ball boy when Rosewall won his first U.S. championship in 1956. The diminutive veteran countered Roche's crashing slams with an array of delicate ground strokes that his younger opponent whacked helplessly into the net. Time and again, as the burly Roche charged in to follow up his whistling serve, Rosewall hit the kind of low, sharply angled passing shot that had long ago earned him the nickname of the Little Master. Final...