Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fifteen minutes more of this verbal frolic and I essay a politely inane closing riff. "Well, good luck on your Japan tour. I'm sure it'll be a good shot...
Which is really what this film is all about--a long slow tableau of a beautiful man and a beautiful woman doing beautiful things. But it is contrived, painting a tortured tableau. This is not a fantasy out of Bronte, it's a photo essay out of Penthouse. Jane Seymour, as the actress Collier loves, is hauntingly beautiful--but she spends most of the movie in soft focus, always on the verge of letting her hair down, ringlets playing about her ears, draped in lace. That old fantasy of Victorian women with all that fancy lingerie. Set against Reeves' incompetence...
Roger Rosenblatt's essay "The Wars of Assassination" [Sept. 8] pinpointed the reason assassins and assassin countries escape punishment for their dastardly crimes: lack of outrage and resolve on the world, national and individual levels. The slain Ali Akbar Tabatabai was a cultured, pro-Western and democratic man-a human being of excellence and compassion...
...your Essay pairing poets laureate with presidential candidates [Aug. 25], I was surprised to find that "James Dickey probably would belong more with Lyndon Johnson than with Carter." Why, exactly? It is true that I was asked to write a poem and deliver it at President Carter's Inauguration, which I did. I was poetry consultant to the Library of Congress during Johnson's Administration, but poets are not allowed to pick their Presidents. My political sympathies at the time were in no sense with the late President, but with then Senator Eugene McCarthy...
...course he repeats himself. But why keep silent when the frenetic lives of all the Moskowitzes, Fishbeins and Koppelmans in Brooklyn are kvetching around in your head? If a paragraph misses, one goes on to the next; to an essay on scientists experimenting with anti-choking methods...