Word: companion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...show its effects, that's somehow a sign of strength." Chafetz points out that in some other countries-Italy and Israel, for example -drinking is an accepted social custom, but there is little alcoholism. Why? The reason, he thinks, is that alcohol in those countries is a companion to a happy occasion, not the occasion itself...
Color in Art, a major exhibition centered around theory, opens on Wednesday at the Fogg. A scientific exhibit at the Museum of Science, called Color Around Use, will be opening as a companion, and there will be colorful lectures through June...
Even if you decide to skip the mysterious USSR in 1974, or to pass up the bistros of Bulgaria this time around, Let's Go will be a useful companion as you get insulted in the more traditional stops on a European tour. Its different attitude is reflected even on its cover, and Let's Go's hitchhiking hand should be more popular among Europeans this summer than Arthur Frommer's prominent American dollar signs...
...humanity. "I'm not really so terrible," he tells an American colleague. "Sometimes when I pass a beggar I don't spit, and maybe even give him a coin." Fighter Kim, tortured by Americans determined to find out who blew up their friends the week before, strangles a companion whose capacity for resistance he doubts, slits his own wrists and lies down quietly to die. And Grandmother Pan survives the catastrophe to rummage among the rubble for her husband's legs. Maybe in certain circumstances just to survive is heroic--though if that's so, maybe heroism isn't worthwhile...
Malick, who is 30, is a protégé of Arthur Penn, whom he thanks in the end credits and to whose Bonnie and Clyde he is indebted. Badlands, however, is very different in its sensibility - chilly, savage and rueful. It might better be regarded less as a companion piece to Bonnie and Clyde than as an elaboration and reply. It is not loose and high-spirited. All its comedy has a frosty irony, and its violence, instead of being brutally balletic, is executed with a dry, remorseless drive...