Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...milk crate in his living room and watched the ball game. It was his way of relaxing, though certainly not his exclusively (this fact bothered him); tonight, as was the case with most of his terminal summer nights, the ball game was all he had to look forward...
...certainly looking forward to it. Bobby always loved baseball, had played Little League when he was young and later on he pitched for his high school team. But college--well, he couldn't understand what was happening in college so he dropped out, having decided to make some money in construction instead. No money in Kant or Hegel, he reasoned. There were plenty of philosophy students mopping floors until midnight for minimum wage, and Bobby had grander aspirations: he wanted a fast, sleazy car, a pool, a color TV, an air conditioner, a wife who looked like Cheryl Tiegs...
...unit set designed by John Wright Stevens is a curtained belvedere that does not lend itself well to the different locations called for in the play. Most of the Brandeis stage is unused, since the set is placed so far forward. The playing area is unduly shallow and so steeply raked that it must be difficult to move about on. The cast must, to use Macbeth's words, feel "cabin'd, cribb'd, confin'd." Perhaps the Lake Forest stage is unusually small; but if so, some adjustment ought to have been made here by pushing the set back...
...Wild Bunch, The Ballad of Cable Hogue) or even his worst (The Killer Elite, Bring Me the Head of Al fredo Garcia). At one point the film's hero announces that "the purpose of the convoy is to keep moving"; maybe so, but if Convoy has any purpose, forward movement is not it. - Frank Rich
...David Kahn, author of the highly regarded study of cryptology, The Codebreakers, compellingly proves, espionage is the realistic assessment of possibilities; and Hitler, in whom all power centered, was a charismatic leader, not a realist. Like sharks, such leaders prosper only when they move constantly forward. To stand still, basking in certainty, is to drown...