Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...traffic jam in Roma from urban ugliness to post-industrial beauty, a change much more convincing than anything in Amarcord. In Roma it was the way of seeing that made something beautiful; in Amarcord, it is the thing itself. A peacock flies onto a snowdrift and opens its fan. In a dense early morning fog a young boy wanders through a grove of trees which have assumed eerie, deformed shapes. The child's way of seeing, like his way of judging the height of the snow, is objectified instead of being shown as a consequence of perception...
...play-offs opened with victories for Minnesota, Los Angeles and Pittsburgh; in Oakland the Raiders scored the biggest win of all with a wacky 28-26 squeaker over the defending Super Bowl champion Dolphins. And when the pros were taking a breather, the college bowl games competed for the fan's attention. Almost unnoticed amidst all the hoopla, Federal District Court Judge William T. Sweigert handed down a decision in San Francisco that threw the National Football "League for a loss. It could upset the basic structure of labor-management relations in professional football...
MOZART: COSI FAN TUTTE (London, 4 LPs). An elegantly articulated, lyrical version of the Mozart confection with Sir Georg Solti conducting...
That piece of good advice did not come from a Democrat but from Mr. Republican himself: Senator Barry Goldwater, who was simply stating in his customary blunt way what most other members of Congress, and a fan- number of Americans generally, feel. Last week the President was handed a smashing defeat, partly by his own party, when his veto of a veterans' benefits bill was overridden by a vote of 394 to 10 in the House and 90 to 1 in the Senate. The measure, which increased educational aid to veterans by 22.7%, was inflationary, and it was consistent...
Eckstein said his proposals would not "fan the fires of inflation," as some senators feared...