Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reconcile Israel with its unremittingly hostile neighbors, or the Palestinian refugees who lost their homes as a result of its establishment. Today, after another bloody war, it seems as though Arabs and Jews--victims of historic developments they didn't initiate or choose--may be a little closer to reconciliation, but only a little...
...visual echo of quick cuts which shatters the silence of the forest when Karl-Oscar's younger brother Robert shoots what he believes is an Indian warrior. In his control of natural images, his imagination and sense of the complex relations of individuals to social processes, Troell comes closer to Bergman than any other current director. He edges near the best Faulkner, imaginatively recreating a history which is truer and more substantial than the history of dates and figures, a history with fictional embellishments that deepen our understanding...
...exception, of course, was his hour-long televised press conference with the Associated Press Managing Editors in Florida's Disney World (TIME, Nov. 26). While carried off with panache and an almost hectic energy, that performance at many points was something less than candid. In fact, on closer examination, the list of some of the distortions, innuendoes and false assumptions by the President is astonishing...
...annual rate of 9.6%, largely because of the rising cost of fuel. The fuel crisis threatens to reduce consumer spending, cut next year's expected real economic growth by one percentage point or more, raise unemployment by a percentage point or so, and lead the nation closer to a recession...
...Matthew Cooney of Westinghouse Broadcasting Co.-Nixon came to a man and a young boy in the airport crowd. As Eaton and Cooney later told it, Nixon asked the man whether he was the boy's "mother or grandmother." Apparently puzzled, the man replied, "Neither." Peering for a closer look, the President replied, "Of course not," and gave what Eaton and Cooney described as "a light slap" to the man's face...