Word: fainting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon was innocent of the Watergate accusations. "Always errors are made by people trying to do something . . . We live by and believe in a forgiving spirit," he said. Air Force One lifted off the run way, and the Governor took off his coat to cool down. There lingered the faint feeling that Richard Nixon's troubles are taking a toll even among the true believers of Jackson...
...Watergate affair had its faint origin in what was itself a trivial and foolish incident. But from this minor incident, Watergate has expanded on a scale that has plunged our country into what historians call a "crisis of the regime." [This] is a disorder, a trauma, involving every tissue of the nation, conspicuously including its moral and spiritual dimensions...
...braggadocio, the same sort of elaborate but inglorious combats one finds here. Heroics are mocked, survival is championed. The musketeers are made into creatures whose absurdities of conduct, florid codes of honor and hollow protestations of heroism make them all the more recognizable and human. It is their own faint absurdity that makes them true...
Grace Paley is a difficult and subtle writer. Her strengths are a peculiar quality and modulation of tone, and an ability to find the telling phrase--even her titles bear their own special attraction. Her sentences are dipped in a faint, pastel irony. Her narrators are people in the process of responding deeply, immediately, and with a fascinating restraint that molds it all into words. The hearts of her stories are less plots than the tense tracing of forces in some encounter--an encounter of people, passions, sensibilities...
...even keel is projecting faint disgust at everyone and everything in every movie; he even breathes half-sarcastically, jaded beyond belief. Here it's not a world-wise jaded: the landscape of his face is as dissipated as the roads and stations--all blear, stare, and past-drunk. This is the heavy-lidded look of a Robert Mitchum, except that his moves are quicker: he's dead and jaunty at the same time. The adroitness comes from doing everything with ceremony: never has anyone ever used a napkin with more style, only the style is devilish and cynical...