Word: grace
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really vicious dogfight," recalls Olds, "sort of a general melee with our planes and theirs rolling, twisting and diving all over the place." Olds squeezed off five missiles, and two of the heat-seeking Sidewinders slammed home in enemy tail pipes. With Dawn Patrol grace, he adds: "Both pilots were able to bail out, I'm glad to say." In the second of the day's kills, Olds dived on the fleeing MIG-17 only to have a second Red fighter ambush him with blazing cannons. Scat's Sidewinder blasted the first MIG over a ridgetop...
...former Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson, soon emerged as the leading contender. Anderson was a steady visitor to Spain, even won an audience with Franco. Then, last November, Continental Oil pulled out of the Anderson consortium, and all its hopes were wrecked. A new group, including Gulf Oil, W.R. Grace, Texaco, and Standard Oil of Calif., entered the race with a combined bid. I.M.C. was left to fight it out with the quartet of giants. No one gave I.M.C. a chance...
...Love & Grace. How has Lowell made so many disparate things recognizably his own? It is a riddle and a mystery. Something important and complex happens in the poetry of this complicated man, whose art can also be readily understood not because it is merely simple but because it is the single outcome of many conflicting forces. His poetry leaps with disconcerting metamorphoses at every turn of speech. The bullets that "a stringy policeman" counts become rosary beads. The swan-shaped boats on the ornamental ponds of the Boston Public Garden become mythological birds taking his grandfather, Arthur Winslow, beyond Charles...
...collaborate with the Nazis that have occupied his country, and expresses his conviction in a long speech to the townspeople. As he speaks, the light from the window gives him a presence he had lacked before; we understand that Renoir is showing a man in a state of grace, speaking the beliefs that have made him feel an integral part of humanity. In a different sense, a similar climax is attained in The Golden Coach (1953) when Camilla (Anna Magnani rejects her three lovers, knowing that she expresses herself totally only through the theatre...
...have helped, but Michael Winner's dilatory direction slows the picture's pulse. The only theft that comes off is Michael Crawford's-and he steals the show. Currently starring in Broadway's Black Comedy, Crawford, at 24, displays a plastic face and an elastic grace-comic credentials that should allow him to travel in faster and funnier company...