Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mojave extends to their own egos and abilities. "There's tension among us," admits Meisner, "because we give each other second thoughts. But we remember C.S. N. &Y. and the Beatles. Since Lennon and McCartney split, they have never been as productive." The Eagles are staying together. The bond of the desert is strong...
...next day a rumor-control center was set up, and it coped with some 6,000 calls, but the most infuriating rumor proved true: Chinarian had been charged with second-degree murder and freed on $500 bond. Mayor Young called the bond "ridiculously low." Chinarian was later brought back to court and his bond was raised to $25,000. But another angry crowd had already gathered outside Bolton's bar, which was finally broken open and wrecked. By the next night Detroit police had again restored calm in the streets, still without firing a shot. In the 1967 rioting...
...little, well, obsessed. But not warped. Everyone's a little crazy on at least one subject, and most women probably do feel that their craziness is in some way linked to their being women, so Ephron's naled confession of her own craziness sets up a sort of bond between her and the reader. It's probably only coincidental that this essay is the first in the book--the pieces are arranged chronologically but it somehow justifies Ephron's assertive presence in the next...
...comes to other subjects, particularly people. The tendency to introduce herself and her reactions extraneously when writing about the other individual women in this book is one pitfall that Ephron slips right into. If often makes her appear condescending and unsympathetic, and it does much to weaken the important bond that Ephron established in her first essay...
...side, that you share her point of view. It's a flattering assumption, and the temptation is to play along. But if you decide at some point that you want nothing to do with it, you're more or less stuck--it's the flip side of that old bond she set up, just as Ephron's harshness about others is the flip side of her honesty about herself. Perhaps that is the worst thing about Ephron's method of personal journalism--you have to take her in her good moods as well as in her bad, just...