Word: bit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drew a mere 30 spectators at a gathering in a backyard in Brooklyn. G.O.P. National Chairman Bill Brock told the Brooklynites: "The average New Yorker pays $800 more in federal income tax today than four years ago. I think that's insane." His audience agreed, but still seemed a bit baffled by the Kemp-Roth 33% solution. As Ann Hickey told the Republicans at a subsequent stop in Upper Darby, Pa.: "I just don't see how you can cut taxes without cutting services, and I want to know what services are going to be cut." The still untested Kemp...
Former Harvard Head Swimming Coach Ray Essick, director of the National AAU Aquatic Administration helped land the meet for Harvard. "Ray Essick gives us a little bit of a head start since he knows the facility and the program we will put on here," Bernal added...
...Picking teams is a little bit of a hassle," he says. "These people are your friends, so you have to try hard to be objective when you pick who is going to play on the A team every week. You have to pick the people who deserve it. If a guy comes to you and wants to know why you've made a decision, you've got to be able to give him an honest answer...
...viewer whose mind has begun to stray in this direction reflects that the English title, also, is a bit too mellifluous and easy and that the exquisite photography of interior scenes framed and lit like Vermeer's paintings shows little more than professionalism. The result, though the film is by no means unsuccessful as a whole, is that the actors tremble more than the audience. Passionate gloom haunted Bergman's earlier works, but professional gloom is what is visible in Autumn Sonata...
...stem from easy optimism, as some have charged. For every story in this collection with an up beat ending there is one that puts ice at the back of the neck. Black magic is here, as well as the redemptive kind, and in explicable happiness can be every bit as astonishing as inexplicable misery. Cheever has never tried more or less than to get this sense of mystery down. At the end of one story, he wonders how mere fiction could "hope to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream." As consistently...