Word: courtships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stumbles through the autumn landscape--"the prairie smelled of sage and of the dampness held in the earth"--he goes back in memory to his boyhood days of picking apples, his teenage courtship of Rachel, his service in Italy during World War II. Though the narrative is as vagrant as Snow Falling on Cedars was rooted, Guterson's gift for spinning atmospheric spells has not deserted him, and moment after moment flashes into life with the quick vividness of a photograph: the men in war going out "in mattress covers sewn into snow tunics and in creepers made of tightly...
Forbes' new hires reflect his intense courtship of the G.O.P. social conservatives he so angered in 1996. This time he has recruited veterans of the Buchanan brigade and Christian Coalition chieftains in California, Iowa, Georgia and Alaska. These activists will be crucial if Forbes hopes to win early contests. "It's a smart move, snatching up every Christian Coalition and evangelical person that he can," says Bobbie Gobel, head of the Christian Coalition in Iowa, who lost her executive director to Forbes because she couldn't match his offer. Rivals, who back-load salaries to preserve precious cash, charge that...
...whistle, Johanna?" asks a beau showing off his belle in Kannst du pfeifen, Johanna? "Can you sing? Eat a peach? Gargle? Babble?" Johanna (a falsetto Frommermann) dutifully answers, with suitably rude sound effects, until the lover says sternly, "Can you be quiet, Johanna?" The comic portrait of a doomed courtship, in three minutes flat...
...zero-chemistry courtship between Fraser and Silverstone prompts nausea. The film would have been better with less emphasis on their inevitable romance. The director attempts to uplift us with a scene depicting Adam's first sight of the ocean, but cheesy orchestral music coupled with shots of Silverstone's blank reaction basically kill the moment...
Anchorage, meanwhile, was learning that courtship with the U.S.O.C. was kiss-on-the-cheek stuff compared to a tango with the worldly, rouge-lipped, fire-breathing I.O.C. Rick Nerland, an advertising executive who served as the Anchorage bid's executive vice president, said last week that he was approached twice by agents who asked up to $30,000 for a bloc of I.O.C. votes. "I was disappointed that the person was intimating that that went on," he said. "We dismissed it on the spot." Also resistant were officials from Toronto and Amsterdam, who reported similar shakedowns in the 1980s...