Word: canting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprising assignment: to be an assistant managing editor of the fledgling SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. He became its second managing editor four years later. Outwardly brusque but actually shy, Laguerre was a connoisseur of cigars, race horses, the St. Louis Cardinals and journalistic prose that met his own exacting, cant-free standards. He turned the struggling SPORTS ILLUSTRATED into a solid financial success by restyling its format, pioneering the use of extensive news color photography and developing a staff of diverse, talented writers. After serving longer than any other managing editor of a Time Inc. publication, Laguerre left SPORTS ILLUSTRATED...
...farcical kidnaping-the larky stuff of American screwball comedy. The film's stylized denouement, shot around a wintry mansion, is a surrealist's spooky intimation of tragedy. But even when invoking death, Handkerchiefs is no cause for gloom. By liberating sex from the political and cultural cant of our time, Blier leaves the audience drunk on the possibilities of life...
Such is Cimino's fresh perspective that The Deer Hunter should be an equally disorienting experience for hawks and doves. This is the first movie about Viet Nam to free itself from all political cant. It contains no antiwar characters at all; its prowar characters are apolitical foot soldiers, not fire-breathing gook killers. The film is as far removed from Coming Home as it is from The Green Berets. Cimino has attempted to embrace all the tragic contradictions of the U.S. intervention in Southeast Asia...
...Jones' cultish socialism, the spiritual and political were joined. In their terrific surrender, cultists reduce a multiform, contradictory world to cant formulas, and thus they become as dangerous as anyone whose head resounds with certainties...
...DOES have problems. Cant terms and phrases blemish the work, including, foremost, "nurture" in all possible tenses and manifestations. "Parent" is used repeatedly as a transitive verb, a questionable usage more startling than necessary. Quotations, essential to carrying the book outside the limited experience of ten women, sometimes obtrude, making the prose lurch like some balky pack-animal. And the eighth chapter, a pseudo-Marxist critique of American society, seems incongruous and overextends the credibility of the authors...