Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...portable stained-glass windows. It is an orgy of Vatican decay, crowned finally by the entrance of the Pope himself, ossified and immobile, wheeled in on a huge golden throne, as the audience erupts in hair-pulling paroxysms of faith. But more is involved here than the obvious satiric bite. On the far side of sacrilege. Fellini has made an uneasy peace with the Church, ignoring questions of dogma, celebrating the wildest extremes of artifice. Ornate trappings, once the symbol of Church power, are now the tomb of its ruined power...
...wristwatch with a magnetic field to deflect bullets. A bad guy named Tee Hee who has a metal hand that can crush a gun to talcum powder. Voodoo sacrifices and a pool of 86 hungry crocodiles, each of them waiting for just one bite of the struggling hero. It sounds like a comic strip, and in a way it is. The newest James Bond movie, Live and Let Die, is the most inventive-and the most potentially lucrative-comic strip ever made, two hours of thrilling, high-powered nonsense...
...right to lawful assembly." After the bearing Douglas confides at a press conference: "Now they want to control rats, next it'll be the Jews--you know what that means." The elder justice returns to Alaska to write a book about a liberal-thinking rat that is forced to bite ghetto children to defend his constitutional rights. President Nixon tells a Lake Forrest, Illinois Grand Jury investigating Federal complicity in Vietnam war crimes, that to reveal his sources would violate his rights as a published author...
...bite to these Agnew-like barks, Whitehead revealed that the Administration will submit a bill to Congress that would dump responsibility for alleged network transgressions directly on the nation's nearly 600 network-affiliated local stations. "Station managers and network officials who fail to act to correct imbalance or consistent bias from the networks-or who acquiesce by silence-can only be considered willing participants," said Whitehead, "to be held fully accountable by the broadcaster's community at license-renewal time...
...Oistrakh's way is a perfect blend of ingenious inner detail and simple, uncomplicated exteriors. That applies also to his viola playing in the Sinfonia Concertante (Son Igor takes the violin solo) as well as to his conducting of the Berlin Philharmonic, which plays with more energy and bite than it usually does under its regular conductor, Herbert von Karajan...