Word: backed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plains, has been restrained by court order from using the trademark mask in nostalgia appearances. Wrather Corp., which owns the masked-man rights and plans to release a new Lone Ranger film, complained that Moore has grown too old to impersonate the fearless avenger of evil. Moore fought back by retaining his familiar white hat and, until the case is settled, wearing sunglasses. "I'm not happy with the sunglasses," admitted the western hero who had to wear shades. "I want the mask back. But the Lone Ranger code is fair play, law and order...
...beats jogging," insists Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa, the tam-o'-shantered semanticist and college president turned junior Senator from California. That is why Hayakawa, 73, takes regular tap lessons, frequently practicing his steps before a mirror to make certain his buck-and-wings are smooth. Back home or in Washington, the Senator works out to the strains of such golden oldies as Sentimental Journey and A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody. Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly he is not. But, then, what do Fred and Gene know about marking up Senate bills or pursuing points of order...
What if Little Nell doesn't die? What if nothing much happens to her? Nell had better be unusually charming, that's what. The feeling here is that Peppermint Soda, a film about an uneventful year in the life of two young Parisian sisters, wavers back and forth across an awkward boundary: sometimes it is just barely charming enough, and sometimes it almost charms, but not quite...
...intense and personal meaning for her. Some of this intensity is conveyed to the viewer, some is lost. The film offers a sense of the strong, often mysterious flow that when it is finished, we call a life. Yet in the end the viewer feels that Kurys has held back important information, that she has used technique to disguise the fact that there are depths to her characters that she herself, perhaps, does not understand...
...handsome blue lobelia was prized by the Indians as a cure for syphilis - and bought for a pretty price by a gullible English nobleman. The colonizers were more astute about Solidago, or goldenrod, that "humble and glorious" wildflower, which they took home and improved and now sell back to Americans for fancy sums. Indeed, argues White, goldenrod, which has 54 native species and grows in every state of the Union, should be adopted as the national flower (the U.S. has none). If that should come to fruition, the flower should of course be rechristened Solidagowhiteana. -Michael Demarest