Word: disturbance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hazel eyes, she assumes a trancelike expression that rarely bespeaks the slightest emotion. Rivals have described her intensity as "almost eerie," her slit-eyed squint as "snake-like." Julie Heldman claims that Evert's poise is so great that she does not seem to sweat, much less disturb a strand of her honey brown hair. "I have never seen Chris look disheveled," says Julie, "or even pleasantly rumpled...
...Show (NBC, Thursday, 8-9 p.m. E.D.T.). Helen Reddy won a Grammy last year for her recording of I Am Woman, which has since become a sort of anthem for the Women's Liberation movement. The show's timid overtones of feminism, however, are not allowed to disturb its stolid, unimaginative variety-show format. Hampered by painfully writer-stricken interim patter, Ms. Reddy has neither the presence nor the experience to spark the old string-of-guests routine to life...
...prophesy" (not predicting events, but uttering spiritual messages from God), the power to heal, and, perhaps most controversial of all, the ability to speak in "tongues," known technically as glossolalia. The weird sounds of glossolalia, a primitive kind of communication, either spoken or sung and without any apparent meaning, disturb Christians outside the movement. Among Charismatics, though, glossolalia has two functions-private devotion and public prayer or prophecy...
STATE OF SIEGE is one of the few films which deserves every word of praise it receives. It is brilliantly constructed and should profoundly disturb the assumptions of any audience. Already it has provoked considerable controversy in national film circles. Scheduled to open in this country at the Kennedy Center in Washington a few weeks ago, the film was pulled by the director of the American Film Institute, George Stevens, for being too "anti-American." This precipitated a protest in which other directors pulled their own films from the Kennedy schedule and moved their openings elsewhere. When it finally opened...
...tyrant may be a king or he may, as happened in the case of Prometheus, be Zeus himself. Out of compassion for the tyrant's suffering victims, out of a superb but frightening presumption, the hero ultimately proposes himself as "mediator and savior." He will rebel. He will disturb the existing order-even risk chaos-to secure a new covenant with power...