Word: cools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MEETING, held in one of the hotel lounges, came about an hour after our seven-course dinner. The room was full of overstuffed chairs and sofas and had been equipped with extra red and white electric fans to cool us in the sultry August heat of southern China. The hotel had brought in several bunches of bananas, bowls of filterless cigarettes that look like Pall Malls, three or four cases of cold beer and an equal number of cases of cold orange soda, called "chii-shui" (chee-schway), the favorite Chinese soft drink. There was hot sugarless tea for those...
Ionesco is a logician of the absurd. His ironies are cool and geometric, his surrealism couched in subtle refractions of the ordinary. His work benefits from a naturalistic approach that reinforces the absurdity by contrasting it. Instead, O'Horgan clobbers the play with a bladder of tacky tricks, like shaking the camera to represent a rhino's point of view, staging a coy, clumsy dream sequence, and including a score by Gait MacDermot (Hair) suitable for rebroadcast in office elevators...
...Cool Hand Luke...
...attempting to set the record straight, Editors Irving Kristol and Nathan Glazer turned the quarterly's winter number over to a group of analysts who have little identification with the battles of the '60s; nor did they serve in any important political offices during the decade. With cool rationality and no rancor, the analysts accommodate positions ranging from Philosopher John Rawls, who has constructed an awesome rationale for greater equality, to Urbanologist Edward Banfield, who believes largely in leaving well enough alone...
...Barlow was a vibrant Isolde. Making the most of her ample bosom, well-turned hips and (rarity of Wagnerian rarities) trim waist, she played the Irish princess as an impetuous, headstrong woman. To New York audiences who have seen almost nothing for 15 years except Birgit Nilsson's cool, ruminative portrayal, Barlow's sexy Isolde came as a pleasant shock...