Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were good fodder for the TV commercials that Garth writes and directs. He favors blunt, factual spots with few frills; He also subscribes to Marshall McLuhan's theory that "cool" images are more effective than "hot" ones on TV. Koch and Byrne, both plain-spoken and low-keyed, fit the Garth format...
...play our games at odd times to fit in with the busy Watson schedule," says Bertagna, who is pleased by the afternoon ice time he has obtained for practices. "Many of the coaches I've been in touch with have been complaining about practices at five o'clock in the morning...
...cannot describe Levanter with the mundane occupational lables that fit most people because tasks do not inform Levanter's existence. Instead, he becomes involved in "situations." Kosinski calls him an "investor," but this is not meant in the Wall Street sense. Levanter invests in himself and others. He invests in the relationsips he forms, "the only meaningful form of shareholding in life," according to Kosinski...
...such a situation, Michael Herr was lucky, and he knew it. Writing for Esquire meant that he could ignore the canons of establishment journalism; he could forget the official interviews with generals who spouted obvious lies, he could forget the press briefings. Vietnam didn't fit into the regular news style, but it fit Herr's. He was able to write long, first-person essays that were much more likely to capture the reality of the war than descriptions of troop movements. He could relate what the war was like from the troops' point of view, rather than the generals...
...pure action follow a ritual and rhythm - like simple milongas and tangos - that allow the author to dance briefly from the library stacks where he has spent most of his years. And where he truly belongs. For it is from the life of books that he discovered how to fit elegantly rigged philosophical models into the sparkling confines of his ficciones and become the great hobbyist of 20th century literature...