Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appearance in a few years, he is drastically disappointing. Finney grumbles and hobbles through his part, employing mannerism instead of nuance. He scores now and again, as when he tipsily accepts another cup of the Milk of Human Kindness (yes, it's that kind of movie) from the Ghost of Christmas Present, but such isolated moments from an actor of his stature are slender fare indeed. Sir Alec Guinness materializes from time to time as the ghost of Scrooge's old partner Marley, but he plays the part floating several inches off the floor and flapping his wrists...
INCOMES policy" has been the ghost haunting the Nixon Administration's economic debates. It will neither go away nor, usually, assume any definite shape. The idea that the Government should try to guide private wage and price decisions into noninflationary paths has been urged on reluctant White House leaders by Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns, Assistant Treasury Secretary Murray Weidenbaum, many private economists, some foreign central bankers, and a growing number of President Nixon's big-business supporters. Few of these advocates have specified what form an incomes policy should take or how tough it should...
Robert Bronson, "the last great New England transcendentalist," is the ghost that got away. The author of Captain Hook's Gang, Sunday Mornings with Zarathustra and other poems, Bronson is something like a son of Ahab in corduroy pants. So long as he was in and out of psychiatric wards, so long as "his true sense of sight was anger," Bronson remained a darling of the Boston literati. But then-in 1953, to be exact -Bronson transcended: He found the One, the Oversoul, the Truth, the Great Zero that Emerson and all the earlier transcendentalists only dreamed of discovering...
Bobby Orr is making kids of all ages happy. The American public asks its sports stars for more than athletic ability: ghost-written books, snappy clothes, press agents, and shrieking girls are all part of the game...
...heroic subtitle saved this speech for English audiences. O. R. T. F., for which Godard made Le Gai Savor, bleeped out every word except "under orders from the ghost of Artaud...