Word: closings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Middle East has attracted more attention than any other international story since World War II," he says. "That is what makes the success of Carter's diplomacy so astounding. For the first time, a major part of the region's troubles are close to being resolved...
...hands of a less talented director? It is largely Carpenter's gleeful knowingness, in constructing a situation and co-ordinating an action, with regard to what his audience expects or surmises from any given scene. He tugs at the nerves most sharply through sly scare-tactics: close calls, delays, false alarms, the expectation and possibility of violence as often as the brutal thing itself. He can make sudden action at once surprising and coherent, and, despite the relative poverty of his productions, the direction in each film is practically seamless. Nearly every scene appears to be the product...
...doesn't say much for Boston University's committment to academic freedom," she said, adding. "This action may effectively close the door on free and open discussion of this controversial issue at the B.U. Medical School...
...Close but no Cigar...
...resistance to close human bonds is characteristic of the people in most of Babe's plays. They are intimate with each other only when they are locked in phys ical or verbal violence. In A Prayer for My Daughter, a police detective who could have prevented his daughter's suicide deliberately fails to do so by not answering her radio call for help. In Fathers and Sons, a mythic play about Wild Bill Hickok, neither friendship nor love escapes the carnage. In Babe's Civil War play Rebel Women, General Sherman says, "I have no passion...