Word: beare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...audience, however, never comes. A sympathetic translator takes the party on tours of the island. Sterling, feeling slighted, takes his anger out on Rubbo, accuses him of shooting too much film. Smallwood, ever optimistic, gets invited to a diplomatic reception, where he receives a bear hug and sympathy from Fidel, who cannot spare more attention than that. His time is consumed by a visiting dignitary from East Germany. If Rubbo were less tactfill and intelligent, Waiting for Fidel might just be the movie equivalent of the journalist's last refuge, the trusty How-I-Didn...
...persuasive story, and almost every reviewer praised Speer for his contrition and basic decency. Unfortunately, the story didn't bear up too well under closer scrutiny. Speer's account diverged sharply from the facts in several places and from believability at others--the accolades of many critics notwithstanding. Speer was in fact a dedicated Nazi, who had joined Himmler's Storm Troopers in 1931 and the S.S. a year later. He never opposed such things as the Scorched Earth Policy on moral grounds; his main concern was that all that fine machinery be preserved. Though it receives little attention...
...Attorney James L. Browning Jr. had argued that Patty's life before her arrest showed she was an accomplice of the S.L.A. and hence had a bearing on whether she had willingly taken part in the robbery. In rebuttal, Defense Attorney F. Lee Bailey claimed not only that the defendant's actions did not bear on the robbery, but that the material might be used to try to connect her with other crimes-a violation, he said, of her basic rights...
This notion-or is it an accusation?-bears looking at as Massachusetts, Florida and all the rest bear down on us. The vogue phrase for coverage that overwhelms an occasion and by magnification distorts it is "media event." But before this catchy description becomes the accepted word, before critics of the press begin their chant about conspiratorial press cabals, it might be wise to ask what real influence the press had over the event. This year, probably not much. New Hampshire produced too many words, but only the egregious prattle of the local press lord, William Loeb, could be said...
...Because people hesitate to apply to a place they don't know much about. "The undiucovered country...puzzles the will,/And makes us rather bear those ills we have/Than fly to others that we know not of." We advertise to supply the knowledge, to replace the myths with the facts. And what other houses have residents so enthusiastic as to spend the money and the time necessary for a full-page...