Word: bestowal
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...least not in the case of 14 Radcliffe women who spend a good deal of their time tugging oars on the Charles. For them Philly is the end of the Yellow Brick Road, a potential heaven where the Great Oz will bestow rewards for their perseverance...
...homage, Sisters is not a film that serves Hitchcock, except in that a comparison of his better films (and there have not been any of those in recent years) with Sisters reveals once again what a master he is of his specialized form. Too many directors try to bestow cinematic homage these days -- by borrowing of personalized shots, glimpses of old movie posters, imitation of scenes or whatever. This is esoterica which film does not need...
...distressing for many of his Democratic colleagues, who found his leadership weak and entirely too accommodating to the Administration's Viet Nam policies. Albert's political impotence became embarrassingly apparent when he failed to stop President Nixon, who, with the help of Democrat Wilbur Mills, tried to bestow on himself an item-by-item veto over spending programs authorized by Congress. Eight months ago, some talk of replacing Albert started circulating through the Capitol. His gentle ways and his unwillingness to assert his authority decisively left many Democrats wondering where they could find someone capable of more vigorous...
...with an infelicitous name seemed to be protesting the case of Gérard and Paulette Tro-gnon, a middle-class couple from the town of Le Mée-sur-Seine southeast of Paris. Recently a three-judge court in nearby Melun ruled that the Trognons could not bestow their name on their three-year-old foster son Philippe. The court did not object to the couple but only to their surname, which means stump or butt end. A name like that, said Chief Judge Maurice Rousseau, would be "un handicap" that would make poor Philippe "a butt...
...pacific reluctance, Woodrow Wilson led the U.S. into the first World War. True, the Viet Nam conflict seems to be coming to an end and Nixon may even be able to announce a cease fire before too long. But it seems highly unlikely that the Nobel Committee would bestow its cherished prize on the man who is still overseeing the worst conflict since World...