Word: earlied
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...community -- wheat mostly -- set on rolling land studded with spruce, fir and aspen, by the eastern face of the Rockies. Its winters can get quite brutal, and now and again an old hand decides to break the monotony by taking a lesson from Marge. Even if you have no ear at all, Marge can get you over the hump with, say, Old MacDonald Had a Farm. She cannot, however, rid you of the jitters on recital day. Thereby hangs a tale...
...understand and fight the metamorphosis. What remains of Seth the scientist is all too aware of the monster he is turning into: an efficient killer with "no compassion, no compromise." At times he can be wildly ironic, as when he meticulously preserves in his bathroom the teeth, fingernails and ear that have molted, and then jokes that "the medicine cabinet's now the Brundle Museum of Natural History." At other moments he can lurch from irony to insanity to Kafkaesque insight. "I'm an insect who dreamed he was a man, and loved it." "Help me," he tells Veronica. "Help...
...allergic to cameras and hostile to free reporting, even to show "ordinary life" often requires Soviet permission, and vetting of who is shown. Print journalists manage to suggest these limitations in what they write. But on the screen the eye sees an irrefutable "reality" that compellingly overrides whatever the ear is being told. This is what makes television so powerful, and on occasion so worrisome. As shown, Rita Tikhonova, the model 21-year-old Moscow student who becomes a teacher, is a real and sympathetic individual. The unstated implication is that she also is typical. The people shown were...
...bruise egos and decide the urgent issues. Many officials in the capital deplore the drifting and look for someone to blame. Rather than take on the popular President, some are taking their frustrations out on the man who, on critical security matters, is assumed to have the President's ear: John Poindexter...
...first. But there was an irrepressible flair for the dramatic. At 14, Susan read The Great Gatsby and dubbed herself Sigourney (after the unseen aunt of Gatsby's sleek-snob lady friend Jordan Baker). "I was so tall," Weaver declares, "and Susan was such a short name. To my ear Sigourney was a stage name -- long and curvy, with a musical ring." For nearly a year after this self-baptism, her parents called her simply S, just in case the girl changed her mind, and her name, again...