Word: fulcrums
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...designs for false bookshelves and secret passageways, Krotz some times appears to be auditioning for the part of James Bond's next artificer. But his improvisations are far more suggestive of a Maxwell Smart rerun. One can almost hear the nasal whine: "The old up-and-in opening-fulcrum-stair-kick-board hiding place, eh, chief?" One significant hiding place is omitted from this complete volume: a place large enough to accommodate both the thief and his victim. It is called the judicial system, with its hidden compartments-the police station, the courtroom and the jail...
...reader of history imagines himself to be at the very fulcrum of great events and thus at a gratifying distance from the morning mail or the evening news. There is no better way of keeping reality at bay, unless-and this is the admirable theory behind If It Had Happened Otherwise-the fulcrum of the great event is fancifully shifted a few centimeters, or removed entirely...
...nation may well be poised on a fateful fulcrum that will either tip predominant sentiment toward a new faith in its fundamental institutions?including Congress, the Constitution and the courts?or send it into a trough of public despair and anomie. The direction will depend to a large degree upon how many members of Congress, Government
PALC and Afro's belief that Harvard could have been the fulcrum to help lever Gulf and eventually Portugal out of Africa seems well founded. With an eye toward triggering the initial move in the sequence--Harvard's public divestiture--the two groups quickened their organizing tempo last Spring culminating with the six-day occupation of Mass Hall. In the process, they skillfully orchestrated a campaign that included intelligible leaflets, reasonable demands devoid of shrill rhetoric, and a sensitive appreciation of the difficulty of informing the community on an initially obscure issue. When their campaign peaked with the occupation, picket...
...noncolor, of the film is white. This creates the proper sensation of wintry old age and bleakness. The film gives off an almost palpable and desolating coldness, as if one were witnessing snow on the craters of the moon. But the defect of that virtue surfaces at the fulcrum of the play, which is the vast raging storm on the heath. The lashing rain seems incongruous in such an icy climate, and no one's thoughts should be remotely physical at that moment. Shakespeare has carried us to the butt end of existence, as close to an annihilating image...