Word: blocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...administration attempted to use its executive regulatory authority "in a few rare cases" to block development in suburban areas in order to concentrate growth in cities, Dukakis said...
Harvard and Lesley College have been buying up property on that block steadily, Kolodner said...
...Robert Weiss of Harvard's Laboratory of Community Psychiatry accurately observed, "There is one social style in one block and a very different style in another block a couple of hundred yards away." Styles can also change rapidly. In The Late George Apley, Novelist John P. Marquand described a Brahmin who stepped out of his new house in Boston's South End and saw a man across the street fetching his newspaper...
...rock called King Island, is a masterpiece of terse narrative and clinical observation. Without wasting a diphthong, Roueche captures the look and feeling of the gray ice-choked sea, the pleasant bite of whisky and the new taste of muktuk, or whale fat: "The blubber looked like a block of cheese-pale pink cheese with a thick black rind. It was very tender and almost tasteless. The only flavor was a very faint sweetness...
STALLONE'S DIRECTING is as bad as his screenplay. He overuses close-ups, slow motion and freeze shots in attempting to create the dramatic tension his shallow characters and uninteresting plot fail to provide. In one scene, Victor is delivering a large block of ice to someone who lives up a long flight of stairs: close-ups of Victor's sweating face, shots of the imposing staircase, shots of Victor climbing the stairs, and so on, until he finds the customer did not want any ice. What should be drama becomes unwitting comedy...