Word: felting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...painful search for something that moves." It sounds great on paper, but I don't see it in the movie. I see an elegant, poorly thought-out but often very fascinating film of Despair. Nabokov pulled off a miracle in his novel: we stood outside Herman Hermann and still felt his pain; we experienced his warped vision and still perceived pieces of reality. But neither Nabokov's lucidity nor his despair have made it to the screen...
...Israelis initially were a bit more guarded than was the American spokesman. Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan conceded that he had no personal problems with the draft, although he added that "a lot of things still need to be resolved." Some observers felt that Dayan may have been excessively cautious in order to avoid antagonizing hard-liners in Premier Menachem Begin's cabinet, which will discuss the draft at meetings this week...
After ten years in power, Trudeau also suffers from chronic overexposure. In 1976 his popularity soared, following the election of Separatist Premier Rene Levesque in predominantly French-speaking Quebec. Anglophone Canadians then felt that Trudeau, a bilingual Quebecois from Montreal, was uniquely qualified to fight the breakaway movement in the country's largest province (pop. 6 million). Since then, Levesque has cannily soft-pedaled his political line. As a result, the urgency of the separatist threat to Canada's 111-year-old confederation has worn off outside Quebec...
When asked about how he felt about being part of an elite, one final club member snapped back over his dinner at Lowell House, "So what? There will always be elites, there have to be elites--why shouldn't I be part...
...felt badly for the team," coach Joe Restic said after the game, "because they really stormed back...