Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Neil is one of the city's best-known politicians. His stereotypical Irish pol looks--stocky build, slick white hair, and bulldog face--constant jokes and vicious racism make up his now familiar act. While newspaper articles on O'Neil recount his actions humorously, few seriously examine and explain the rise of this well-publicized but rather ineffective politician...
Hatred, McCarthy goes on to explain, wells up out of the fear and guilt that death provokes. Along with the dancer, the graveyard is a recurrent Celinian image, while hatred is the sentiment that the writer analyses best. This penetrating analysis would not have been possible, McCarthy claims, had not Celine himself felt an overwhelming need to hate. In other words, Celine's anti-semitism amounted to a more virulent manifestation of the sensibility that even his detractors found riveting and considered essentially harmless in its purely literary form...
...presents an outlay of all the conflicts playing inside the weak paradigm. Dmytryk stood with Ten, went to jail, came out and gave names; he was subsequently hired by Hollywood's reigning young liberal Stanley Kramer. Now, his pictures and career faded, all he does is apologize and explain with a slight tremble. Trumbo's pictures were no better than Dmytryk's for the most part (his dialogue stank) but he had his integrity and his anger to clutch to, and it kept him a man to the end. Alvah Bessie never got another script job again--he stage managed...
Halpern's film tries to explain the period, and of course, it does not. It stretches and sprawls and sometimes the interviews just go flat. But it is by far the best work done on the ugly little freak blacklist, and it is hard to imagine anybody attempting to match the ambitious perspective of Hollywood on Trial. It pulls in Herbert Hoover and Zero Mostel. Joseph McCarthy and Walt Disney, and although it doesn't have the footwork some documentaries do, it is an impressive mosaic...
...gunfighter image. "She's part of our Southern strategy," says Dole proudly. Similarly, Joan Mondale, the vivacious and savvy wife of Senator Walter Mondale, is brightening the Democratic ticket, although she got off to a shocking start. Asked by a television reporter on the West Coast to explain the difference between Watergate and the sex scandals of Democratic Congressman Wayne Hays, Mrs. Mondale said: "The issue is Watergate or waterbed. The Democrats do it to their secretaries, but the Republicans do it to the country." Today she hides her head in her hands when asked about the slip...