Word: compacter
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...chilling days in October 1962, it seemed that John F. Kennedy and Nikita S. Khrushchev might be playing out the opening scenes of World War III. The Cuban missile crisis was a uniquely compact moment of history. For the first time in the nuclear age, the two superpowers found themselves in a sort of moral road test of their apocalyptic powers...
During the years of heady economic growth during the '50s, '60s and early '70s, organized labor generally fulfilled an unwritten compact with its members by getting them more of everything. With the implicit partnership of employers, who often agreed to an expensive settlement rather than risk a painful strike, union leaders regularly won new contracts for the rank and file that guaranteed more pay, better benefits, improved working conditions and additional days...
...says, and a plaque in each car traces its provenance. The most exquisite of all is a dining car with eight frosted-glass panels handcrafted in the style of famed 19th century French jeweler Rene Lalique. The sleeping compartments, nine to twelve to a car, are marvels of compact beauty, with comfortable bench seats that convert into upper and lower berths, mahogany drop tables, and inlaid doors enclosing an ornate washbasin; there is a magnificently paneled toilet at the end of each...
...sleek chairs and desks, almost electrocute each other with a computer's exposed wires. The final blow, be warned, is a vertical slice through the bad guy's cranium. One wonders how many members of the audience will stay around to watch the end of this compact Armageddon-and how many of these will leave with a splitting headache...
Kazan, whose Greek immigrant father was a rug importer, may have shared some of his character's social trepidations as a student at Williams and Yale. His college nickname was Gadge, short for Gadget ("I was small, compact and eccentric"), but there is nothing mechanical in his development of The Anatolian. With humor and affection, as well as a bruised sense of the dark side of immigrant life, he has woven a saga as richly textured as a fine Kirman carpet. Or one of the great old Kazan films, for which The Anatolian would have made fine grist...