Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Murdoch break ranks? At first he was named by publishers as their negotiator-they wanted the Aussie out in the open where they could keep an eye on him. That role troubled Murdoch, especially after Theodore Kheel, the labor lawyer and supermediator, was called in by the unions, with assent from the News and the Times, to get negotiations moving when they seemed stalled. Murdoch saw Kheel less as an observer than an active arbiter, who might dictate terms inimical to the Post. "They put him out in front to take all the heat, then they cut him down from...
...Moses Wine is a character of rare vintage. Indeed, it's not too much to say that he is the best, most entertaining figure anyone has managed to invent for an American movie this year. Moses not only is an amusing variant on the classic lonely guy, private-eye character, but Screenwriter Simon, adapting his own novel, also employs him for purposes of wry and rueful social observation. The well-plotted mystery tale quite compassionately reveals how a lot of '60s radicals have signed on with the System that was once thought to be their enemy...
...McCabe and Mrs. Miller undermines the modern mythification of the American past, The Long Goodbye (1973) exposes the improbability of a more contemporary American hero: the private eye, as created by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. Altman's Philip Marlowe (Elliot Gould) is an anachronism. His stocks in trade--intelligence, independence and integrity--are pitifully inadequate weapons with which to confront modern, large-scale, organized corruption...
Sally Rand, septuagenarian fan dancer, when asked after a recent performance whether she really wears nothing beneath her ostrich plumes: "It doesn't much matter. The Rand is quicker than the eye...
...more complicated structural issues, the inbred capitalist priority system? Check out your own neighborhood to see how far we still have to go on race relations. Tremble a little in the night over visions of the fleets of C-147 transports--in the macho twinkling of a President's eye we could be marching the streets of Beirut, or Johannesburg...