Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nakobov is best when his characters bear the same watermark as himself. Some of his "made-up" characters are good, but they cannot compare to the boy in "First Love," the aging lover in "Spring in Fialta," Pnin, or Humbert Humbert of Lolita, all of whom clearly resemble the author. Lolita, that beautiful and hilarious love story, is still his greatest novel...
...showing a couple tooling down a highway. An announcer's voice says "Guess who Sid and Gladys ran into day before yesterday?" There is silence, then the sickening sound of a collision followed by the return of the voice with the answer: "Hank and Marilyn." Even Smokey the Bear is growling nowadays: his fire-prevention spots feature footage of charred woodlands...
Stories about the demise of baseball's minor leagues have become as popular in recent years as profiles on Paul (Bear) Bryant. These stories always define the problem (in 20 years, the number of minor leagues has shrunk from 58 to 19), offer perfectly sound reasons (televising of major league games into minor league towns leads the list), then grandly conclude that nobody misses the minor leagues because even without them overall baseball attendance is higher than ever. To me, one of the thousands who hitchhiked into a Class D town as a teen-ager begging for a tryout, these...
...baritone and oboe were absolutely first-rate. Conductors usually approach the final apotheosis, "The Great Gate of Kiev," with an orgiastic inflation that would sink Das Rheingold without a trace. Mr. Yannatos wisely avoided the pillory hysterical approach, reasoning that if "The Gate" follows the other sections, it must bear some relation to them. The lasting impression of this work and of the evening was a sensible, thoughtful and commendable performance of a program rich in history by an Orchestra of uncommon musicianship...
...Russians have approximately 150 heavy Bear bombers that can reach the U.S. and get home again without refueling. Nixon's figure can only be attained by including the Soviet force of some 700 relatively slow, medium-range aircraft that could fly only one-way missions without air-to-air refueling...