Word: goading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...control as individuals-not merely outside the law, but out of biological order. Something stirs, an ancient reflex, as if they are dragged back through history to a starting point in evolution. The mob is a pack, its prey the female. Her difference is the instigator, her frailty the goad. Rape what you cannot have. Plunder what you can never know. Mystery equals fear equals rage equals death. It is she who stands for all life's threats, she who released animal instinct in the first place. Once aroused, why stop to reason or sympathize? The savage surfaces, prevails...
...stories to friends and neighbors ("11 p.m. Friday night, and the Science Center library, it' full"), you can secretly admire them for caring about something for its own sake (sort of the same admiration that everyone accords a young man entering the priesthood), but they're not such a goad to the conscience as to win the rest of us away from the barrooms, the newspaper offices, the klieg lights, or the playing fields. So a huzza for them, and for the sheer candlepower they generate for the rest of us to loll painlessly...
Certain factor of the basketball game are indeed, solvable--specifically the number of turnovers, impulsive play inside the key and the ability to from a workable defense so it is possible to gain rebounds. Working to overcome these detriments must be the immediate goad for the cagers...
Steve Tesich's love for America is an intoxicating passion. In his plays (Division Street) and screenplays (Breaking Away), this Yugoslav immigrant envisions an America that is a goad to greatness, an impossible ideal, a reconciler of a thousand contradictions, a Swiftian kick in the pants. Director Arthur Penn is fascinated with America too, but critically. He has upended myths of the Old West (The Left-Handed Gun, Little Big Man) and found desperate excitement on the fringes of 20th century Americana (Bonnie and Clyde, Alice's Restaurant). As collaborators, these two artists might produce high-arcing dramatic...
...airlines, the PATCO walkout is not nearly as damaging as had been feared. Many carriers are using it as an excuse to lay off unneeded employees, sell fuel-inefficient aircraft, trim unprofitable routes, goad pilots into working more hours a month and otherwise shape up their companies. Says an official for Braniff, one of the biggest money losers among airlines: "The industry is doing house cleaning it should have done anyway...