Word: endless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thanks to TV, no war in history has become so commonplace, so visually familiar as the Viet Nam War. To the living-room audience, the war is green (jungle, helicopters, uniforms) and red (blood). It is endless patrols by faceless men up numberless hills. The enemy are small, expressionless men crouching on the ground with their elbows tied behind their backs or shrunken heaps of black rags lying motionless on the ground. It would seem that there is nothing more to learn from another look at the warnothing, that is, until a first-rate photographer puts together...
...agonized for her exhausted husband, slept fitfully and suffered from a recurring nightmare in which she wandered lost through endless rooms. The months before L.BJ.'s decision not to run again were the worst; to her, the thought of another campaign seemed like "an open-ended stay in a concentration camp...
...back, the uncomfortable husband surreptitiously gulps a fizzy glassful ("Is it beginning to rain, dear?" she asks). The playlet's success depends upon the interaction of the bride's naivete with the sudden, stunned realization of the groom (Terry Kiser) that the price of love may be endless indigestion. His anguish as she innocently plans her next menus (marshmallowed meatballs and poached oysters) is a masterly mixture of suffering and tact. Indeed, Alka-Seltzer commercials have become the standard by which the entire genre is judged...
Pascal's Wager proposes that the promise of infinite gain makes belief in God's existence worthwhile no matter how small the possibility might seem, and that life should be devoted to renouncing the endless contradictions and passions of self which interfere with maintaining a consciousness of God. Jean-Louis rejects this doctrine, first on the grounds that it's bad probability ("a lottery"), and secondly that accepting certain worldly pleasures (within reason) doesn't lessen his religious faith. He lives by a sort of operational dialectic, using the science of probability to calculate his freedom within the limits...
Harvard has been notorious over the past several seasons for its endless shuffling of quarterbacks. Partly this has been due to a lack of talent-a problem which clearly does not exist this year-and partly to the coaches' hesitancy to go all the way with one man at quarterback...