Word: endless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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AGAIN, ALMOST accidentally, the sheer triteness of Nilsson's script is often the richest source of humor. Oblio meets a heap of rocks, Rock Man (Gerald Bernstein), a "stone person" with a deep, throbbing double-bass of a voice and an endless stream of outdsted jargon, "Being a rock," he intones, "is a very...heavy...life. We rocks are impervious to heat. We...stay...cool," And his coolness increases, strangely enough in direct proportion to the number of his cliches, which come fast and furious. His advice to Oblio is to keep cool--like "Mother Nature sittin' at the console...
...anti-homophile inferences--in fact, they can be eliminated entirely. Instead, in show in which royal banquets where "the liquor flows like wine" are interrupted by would-be regicides with wooden spoons ("to stir the people to rebellion"), the chorus-line becomes one more irrelevant frill, part of an endless series whose insouciance about ordinary standards of sense as well as sensibility lets you just sit back and listen to the one-liners crackle...
...Viet Nam's war is an endless litany of abstract events that one believes but never sees, Cambodia's five-year war is an immediate, palpable, personal experience. Take a left Urn at the airport, and five kilometers later you are right at the front lines, where government T-28s drop cluster bombs, gunships fire rockets, and miniguns and 105s endlessly pound away at Communist positions just northwest of the city...
...Endless Hunt. Grindinger had little time to make his final choice. Last Wednesday was D-day for signing a national letter of intent, the formal document with which high school seniors pledge themselves to one school. For Notre Dame and scores of other colleges, there is no more costly or critical contest than the annual quest for signatures. Nor, for less scrupulous schools, is there a dirtier sport (TIME, Jan. 21,1974). The reason: failure to get enough of the right names on the dotted line can mean disaster in the stadium. "Recruiting is the lifeblood of a college program...
...dates. Next, each youngster receives a questionnaire asking if he is interested in Notre Dame. That begins a whittling-down process designed to cut the number to a more manageable 100 by December when Boulac begins weekly jet tours. Dressed in a green "Irish" blazer, Boulac passes through an endless series of gyms and coaches' offices looking at film and meeting players, trying to identify 20 to 25 blue-chip prospects whom he should visit at home. It is there, around the kitchen table or the fireplace, that Boulac makes the big pitch...