Word: fleetingness
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Still, all the Museums and Women short stories permit the author to comment on fleeting issues which attract him, revealing some of himself to us even at these most casual aesthetic moments. When viewed against more consistent earlier collections like The Music School and Pigeon Feathers, this one doesn't...
IN the advertising business, where stability is as fleeting as a client's gratitude, change has been particularly rapid in recent years. Yet the men who run J. Walter Thompson, the world's largest agency, have held steadfastly to their time-tested policies. They successfully offered creditable advertising...
Huston cannot wring a moment of pathos out of any of this, although there are fleeting moments of perception, as when a manager carelessly tosses a pair of newly bloodied trunks to another fighter, or when Tully stands in front of the mirror trying on some seedy clothes belonging to...
Neil Simon writes funny commercial Broadway plays that, as movies, remain stubbornly stagebound. Most of Lovers takes place inside the same apartment set, instilling a sense of in creasing confinement that stifles screen comedy. There are some good fleeting gags, but here too there is a sense of constriction. Simon...
So far, Segrè and Chamberlain have remained silent, but several of their colleagues pointed out that both men acknowledged Piccioni's "very useful suggestions" in their original report and later cited his contributions in their Nobel lectures. In any case, whatever the merit of Piccioni's charges...