Word: handfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Three Cambridge and four Harvard cruisers are already outside, lights flashing. A crowd collects. A woman, clouded by the Saturday night V.O.'s, grabs her boyfriend and cries. In the midst of the sea of navy jackets, a 20-year-old with blood all over his shirt holds his hand against an eye. Harvard police, equipped with first aid, attempt to help him. Cambridge calls an ambulance. He staggers away...he wants no part of it. Harvard police clear. It will go down as another assist...
...Boston Ballet offered its own tribute to Romanticism in the authentic perfection of slight gestures: the demurely downcast eyes, the drooping curve of the arms, a dancer's hand to her cheek like a sprig of flowers. The four soloists on opening night (Thursday) were a study in the company's uneven strength. David Brown floundered, as though classical technique were a suit of clothes three sizes too big, while Anamarie Sarazin wandered dutifully through a colorless waltz. But dainty Stephanie Moy, who has improved noticeably over the past couple of years, darted about deft as a hummingbird. And Elaine...
...Then a hand would shoot forward, sometimes in a mediating gesture, sometimes as if physically weighing a point. Then the issue was settled, the order given, the voice kindly, the words earthy...
...George Shultz (1972-74) have often exercised such a role in the past, but Blumenthal has never achieved that stature or authority. Blumenthal deserves some criticism; in addition to his early waffling on the dollar, he badly misread the state of the economy last January. On the other hand, he has been the target of sniping from the White House staff ever since they got the idea he was putting the knife into Bert Lance. Besides, Carter prefers to decide everything himself, listening first to one adviser, then another, and meanwhile his "team" voices a babble of conflicting ideas...
Just a decade ago, he seemed to many admirers an almost legendary figure. Enthroned in an oversized wicker chair, sporting a rak ish beret and clutching a rifle in one hand and a spear in the other, he looked defiantly out at the world from a thousand wall posters of radical chic. FREE HUEY the bumper stickers cried, and everybody knew that meant Huey Newton, co-founder of the Black Panthers, imprisoned for the death of a policeman in a Shootout in Oakland, Calif...