Word: glare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...half-nude, public come-on seriously ("I was just doing my job," she says simply, why Stuart at first makes an icon of her and never quite loses his attitude of reverence, even after the rape--hover tantalizingly over the early scenes but are dissipated in the rude glare of simple melodrama...
...speeches of congratulation and thanks wore on. The patriotic nexus was established: "A great nation," Walter Mirisch intoned, "like a great film, can stand the test of time and the glare of critical examination." One thing that apparently flunked time's test was the anthem America the Beautiful. When Elizabeth Taylor unaccountably asked the crowd to sing it along with her, no one knew the words...
When most uneducated sports fanatics think of rugby, they see a roughed-up, insane version of American football--uncontrolled violence. They picture the "scrums" and "line outs" in which teammates lock arms and heads and glare at their opponents waiting for the squashed football to be tossed into their midst. And then the uninformed sees, to his horror, 15 or so players throw themselves into a rumble. But the ball always squirts lose from somewhere under that mass of humanity...
...obsession, the one prize life has denied him? How could a writer resist the fantasy: a hopelessly deadlocked convention; a sudden mammoth coming-to-trie-senses by the delegates; a whisper cascading into a roar that will not be gaveled into silence. And out into the glare of klieg lights and a forest of microphones there steps, at last, the Best...
This does not seem to be the case for our winter Olympic friends. And so the fabulous footage of downhill racers disappearing into groves of trees, or luge drivers sailing off a bank of glare ice into the Austrian sunset, or ski jumpers Evil Kneivling their way to the hospital, has made me reluctant to embrace the winter games...