Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sunday Woman. Despite certain charming touches, Sunday Woman could serve as a textbook model of how to make an unsuccessful mystery film. The director immediately plunges us into the heart of a murder investigation before we have developed the most casual interest in either the characters or the situation. This would not be so bad in itself, but though the film becomes progressively more involved with solving the murder, we are not given any meaningful information until the last five minutes, and then after the fact. At that point both murderer and arcane motive are brought in out of left...
...Casual Talk. Speaking of his corporate golfing partners, Ford said: "These are close, personal friends and have been for many years, and I have never accepted-or I don't believe they have tendered-any special privileges or anything that was improper." Ford said he had returned the hospitality at his Burning Tree Golf Club or at his home. He did concede, alter some hesitation, that on such outings "certain matters" of political interest to his hosts were discussed "in a casual...
...chaos of the heroine's psyche. Italicized chunks of Joan Foster's latest gothic romance pop up just when one is expecting the next chapter in her life. The reader is kept off balance by jagged shifts from the comfortable ordinariness of situation comedy to the casual cruelty of slapstick farce to the gripping panic of surreal nightmare...
...ridiculing the office. People don't like to see their President put down." Actually, that worried Carter less than it did his staff; at first he wanted to put questions to Ford directly. The debate rules now forbid that, but the relaxed format and the casual dispositions of the two candidates may still lead to direct exchanges...
...Moynihan must take on James Buckley, 53, completing his first term in the Senate. A casual, attractive conservative, Buckley's theme line is: "We must get the government off our backs and out of our pockets." He caused a flutter just before the Republican National Convention in Kansas City by making himself available for the presidential nomination, a foredoomed maneuver seen as an effort to block Jerry Ford for a while and keep alive the chances of Conservative Ronald Reagan. For Buckley, the ploy was characteristically unorthodox; although 40% of the state's voters live in New York...