Word: fitly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them The Front was a painful labor, but it also must have been a labor of love, filled with lofty purpose and deep emotion. Why, then, such a mediocre product? Although Allen and Mostel turn in excellent performances, neither are quite right for their roles. Allen particularly does not fit in a movie of this type. He is the classic nebbish, but the very qualities that contribute to his comic genius detract from the solemnity of the film. The mere sight of his face and sound of his voice, regardless of the unhumorous context, provokes laughter, interjecting unintentional but damaging...
This is getting out of hand. For two weeks in a row [Oct. 25; Nov. 1], you have seen fit to depict prehensile appendages-the hands of man and beast-on your illustrious cover. Does this mean that the coveted Man of the Year award might perchance be replaced by an analogous honor for "Hand of the Year"? If so, I cast my vote...
...executive assistant during the difficult Viet Nam War policy days. Another possibility: Henry Owen, 56, a political and military affairs specialist and president of the Brookings Institution. Former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, 47, fired by Ford, has impressed Carter. But just where the brilliant if abrasive Schlesinger might fit is unclear...
...even have to spend more money than any of your opponents. But more than anything else, Markey showed the worthlessness of the rules that politicians talk about in Institute of Politics Seminars. That is unsettling for many young politicos here and elsewhere because in most cases their game plans fit the rules...
Each exhibitor was given an eight-foot square white flat and told to fill it; a ridiculous idea, to put the frame before the picture. The result is predictably scrappy--Ted Spagna is three large black and white photographs and one color sequence are fit into the space, but none of the four bear any relation to each other above and beyond contiguity...