Word: frothing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aside, The Breaks of the Game ranks with the best sports books of the recent past (unfortunately not an immense group) and solidifies its author's title as the best journalist in the nation. A Halberstam book always takes chances, makes big claims and cuts through the nervous, "objective" froth that passes for most contemporary newswriting. The man breatnes fire and, yes, occasionally burns himself, but no one brandishes as incisive and ambitious a talent. When Halberstam is on, as the ball players say, the man can play...
...this does not sound like a recipe for trendy froth, then nothing can. But Author Ted Mooney adds some marijuana and gin, stirs and comes up with a substantial and moving first novel. For one thing, circumstantial whimsey is balanced against the pathos of characters trying to take their increasingly weird lives seriously. The air around them is "full of microwaves and jets." An apartment-house elevator contains a TV set; during a short ride up, the operator switches dials and treats his passengers to snippets of six old movies. Strange rituals proliferate; at airports, Mooney's people watch...
EVERY four years a new batch of campaign promises to cut government spending and rid the land of federal bureaucratic red tape, mismanagement, and fraud bubble up and cover the nation in a sea of righteous froth, often just hot, soapy air but occasionally bringing forth such tangible changes as the current Proposition...
Even if ABC had left well enough alone, its series roster was vulnerable. With Fantasy Island, Love Boat, Charlie 's Angels and other decorative but childish froth, the network exploited what Hoffman calls "an era of escapism." Now, he says, "real life is once again the focus, and people want programs that reflect social problems and realistic human relationships." CBS had them: 60 Minutes, Lou Grant, Dallas, Archie Bunker's Place...
...pamphlet is a work of art; the art has been corrupted in recent years by the willingness of candidates to gloss over even their nearest approaches to real positions in an out-pouring of feel-good-about-America, new-direction-for-the-70s, time-for-a-man-with-character froth...