Word: containing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wedged into a small car for vacation, wonders if a last-minute phone call concerned his ailing mother-in-law; then he hears the old lady pipe up "I'm here" from somewhere in the crowd between the back seat and the trunk. The Sunday Woman does not contain enough of these modest jokes to call them saving graces. They are more like simple amenities...
FAMILY GATHERINGS do contain comic possibilities. A humorous, built-in tension exists between the piety of the events (religious holidays, weddings) that usually occasion them and the back-biting, excessive drinking or seductions that may ensue. Not only is an alcoholic uncle guaranteed, but there's always the presence of a host of eminently shockable types such as grandparents or mothers of the bride as well--what's the use of being outrageous if no one is scandalized? Add a passel of children to act as the fascinated witnesses of parental duplicity and you have most of the ingredients needed...
...They controlled the ball on us for the whole game last year," Restic said yesterday, "and if we're not careful they'll do it again. Their backfield is capable of doing anything if we can't contain the option play...
...doubt all of the hypotheses one can propose contain some particle of truth, but the ratio between varies greatly from person to person. As a long-term mass phenomenon, the group that the Palisades Class of '65 is supposed to represent is surprisingly hard to pin down...
...moves on to something else. It seems an interviewer has one of two choices in dealing with Brando; either ask the typical questions and be met with icy contempt, or allow the talk to play itself out on a pleasant but superficial level. The interview format simply cannot contain the full sensuousness of Brando's character...