Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Leff, a former state secretary of elder affairs, was known as the candidate who was farthest to the left, but also was viewed as having little chance of winning in the suburban, heavily working-class district. Markey, however, was thought to have a better chance of winning, and had drawn support from several local politicians who were well respected in liberal circles. Perhaps the most prominent Markey supporters were Representative Michael J. Harrington '58, a Democrat who represents the North Shore district next to Markey's, and State Representative Barney Frank '62, a Democrat from the Back Bay who used...
While being courted by other schools, Beaulieu heard a lot of negative things about the Crimson basketball program, which has produced losing teams and drawn a lot of criticism in the last few years...
...Donnell forces strong themes in and out of his work: faith and delusion, guilt and innocence, words and meaning. His characters miss being drawn to proper proportions--they are unevenly constructed, sometimes deep and sometimes shallow to the point of being like the cartoons Tyler complains he comes out with. Especially fuzzy is his ill-defined creation of Missy, a thin, shadowy portrait of a girl...
...Strictly Speaking, seemed to consist largely of dreadfully apt examples Newman had stuffed into a desk drawer over the years. These prompted readers to send him their own favorite examples. A Civil Tongue appears to be written from the mailbag. It offers a plethora of mangled speech and prose, drawn not only from advertisers, politicians, sportcasters and sociologists, but also from people who should know better, such as educators and journalists (among the most cited offenders: the New York Times, TIME* and Newman's employer...
...beginning, though, there is only waiting. Valentine Hood, a displaced American, seeks release from inaction. Hood is drawn to dramatic, gratuitous crime. Less than a year before, as a counsel in Hue, Hood had punched a Vietnamese official for deprecating his own people. Dismissed, he wandered to London where he has set up house with a bunch of almost comical terrorists: Mayo, a rich woman who works for the Irish Republican Army Provisionals and has stolen a Van der Weyden self-portrait which no one seems to want back; Murf, a boy who makes bombs; and Brodie, his girlfriend...