Word: gropes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...court's tendency to grope for a middle way was clearly revealed in its criminal decisions this year. In contrast to the earlier years of the Burger Court, the Justices last term ruled more often in favor of defendants than of prosecutors. Last week the court ruled that juries must be allowed to weigh almost limitless mitigating circumstances, which may force many states to write more lenient death-penalty statutes. They also protected the accused's right to counsel and jury trial in two decisions, and in another refused to permit a "murder scene" exception to requiring search...
...polish that lends Humboldt that extra edge of perversity. And then there is Peter Sellars, who is more wicked and twisted than ever as Humboldt's tormentor. Kubrick takes advantage of Sellars' game of character changes to build an elaborate cinematic labyrinth, and keeps us cleverly puzzled as we grope our way through. It's more accessible and less cerebral than Kubrick's recent work and still quite a fine film--as well as being one of the definitive variations on the theme of Lust's Labor's Lost...
...short while after the lights flickered out, most New Yorkers refused to believe that a crisis was at hand and gamely carried on. Broadway actors performed under the uncertain beams of flashlights held by stagehands; the nude cast of Oh! Calcutta!, unable to grope to their dressing rooms, borrowed clothes from members of the audience and went home in cabs. Waiters at Manhattan restaurants served patrons by candlelight. Buses were delayed only slightly by darkened traffic lights. Garbage trucks whined as usual on their nightly rounds. Mayor Abraham Beame, assuming, like many citizens, that a fuse had blown, ad-libbed...
...watches bitterly from the sidelines, the young executive sells marginal stores and unprofitable ventures, taking heavy losses; for the first time, the company goes into the red. Eventually, the radical surgery is over and the company begins to turn a profit again. As the curtain falls, the two men grope back toward friendship...
...continued surge has surprised even Detroit's inveterate optimists. Late last year, when the industry was just beginning to grope its way out of its worst slump since the 1930s, General Motors Chairman Thomas Murphy guessed that 1976 sales, including imports, might rise to 10,250,000 cars. Since then, he has raised his forecast to "at least 10,500,000." Other auto executives foresee sales of 10,600,000 this year. Either prediction would place 1976 far above 1975's dismal sales of 8,600,000 and make this year the industry's third best ever...