Word: easier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...made and offer an in-depth profile. "It was a unique challenge to translate something that is essentially a print story into a visual and dynamic television presentation," says David McGowan, TIME's special-projects director, who assisted CNN's effort. "CNN's life was not made any easier by the fact that it had to operate on such short notice...
...sense, Potter is no Marlow. His works -- novels as well as plays -- are lionized, though the author is unawed: "I think novels are rather easier to write than plays. Years ago I loved the theater -- until television came along, until I really saw it, saw what you could do with it. I love what television could be if they left it alone." Exemplarily, British TV has left Potter alone to create his atonal rhapsodies, whereas Marlow suffers the impotence of creative failure. And yet, Potter knows Marlow well; the author's biography crosses his character's life at crucial points...
...does not kid itself in distinguishing between a real relation to tradition and one based on expediency. It does not mean facility. (Cezanne had it, in the teeth of exhausting struggles with the motifs that show at every point in his work. Matisse had it, while making things look easier, at least on the surface.) It is not present in raw talent. It rises from deep continuities, not sudden facile ruptures. There are a few living American artists who have it. One thinks of Robert Motherwell's collages, for instance. And in drawing, especially, of Diebenkorn...
...cities lose their summer affectations. "People get a better feel for Parisian life," says Nicole Roques-Lagier, press attache for the Paris Tourist Office. "They see people going about their daily business, much more so than in the summer, when the French themselves are on vacation." It is easier to get a table in a restaurant, a seat at a spectacle or the attention of a salesperson on the Faubourg-St.-Honore...
With these choices and others, Bush is quickly discovering, as John F. Kennedy put it, that it is "much easier to give the speeches than to make the judgments." Bush won the White House by promising no new taxes, no significant spending cuts -- no pain. Now he has moved into the world of knuckle-biting trade-offs and compromise. Having spent much of his adult life striving to be President, George Bush finally is getting his chance to act like one -- and sooner than he expected...