Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though Hamill and Potts are appealing performers, their characters seem too singleminded, and at times simpleminded, for comfort. Their love affair as well as their search for the car are both overtly stage-managed. But Barwood believes in his movie's every frame, and his sincerity comes across in its exhilarating pace and tender moments. Though Corvette Summer relies on hot air rather than narrative propulsion for fuel, it breezes past the finish line. -Frank Rich
...Stoll and ordered him to surrender. Dropping his hands like a Western gunfighter, Stoll reached for a 9-mm. pistol concealed in his jacket. Before he could draw, he was hit by a barrage of bullets. He died 40 minutes later during surgery. West Germans could not take much comfort from this police success. Stoll's comrades were not only still on the loose but now had a fallen colleague to avenge...
...months, perhaps years, before the world's Catholics can adequately take the measure of their new Pope. But they can take comfort from his insistence that "I am only a poor man, accustomed to little things, and in silence." That is a humble assessment, worthy of a man who would take the Chair of Peter and become the Vicar of Christ...
...Yorkers temperamentally do not crave comfort and convenience," E.B. White wrote 30 years ago. "If they did, they would live elsewhere." They know that the city is too damned dirty, and no doubt getting dirtier, with about 50% of the sanitation trucks broken down at any given moment. (Miraculously, however, a new law requiring dog walkers to clean up after their pets is being widely obeyed.) They know that many once grassy parks have long since been scuffed to baldness. But most great cities have been dirty and dangerous-for example, ancient Rome, 18th and 19th century London. New Yorkers...
Though most New Yorkers' initial reaction was that the law is probably unenforceable, retailers reported brisk sales of sanitary devices ranging from 15? disposable cardboard shovels to $11 long-handled pooper scoopers equipped with a flashlight for nocturnal emitters. One apartment complex unveiled a canine comfort station, whose white-tiled premises were dutifully christened by Toto (né Megs), Dorothy's dog in the Broadway musical The Wiz. On the first day of the law, only 22 litter tickets were issued; yet to close observers of sidewalks and parks, there was a marked diminution in dog litter...