Word: horizons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...recalled with harrowing accuracy. The serried ranks of French overflow the British positions. The infantry companies form huge squares, firing at an enemy that seems, like dragon's teeth, to sow new fighters as the old ones tumble. And mud undoes both sides. Aerial cameras traverse the horizon, catching cannon and cavalry as they give the battle almost Tolstoyan sweep and power...
...result, Rags at its second-best, often explores the underbelly of the established culture it resents better than it extols the merits of the counter culture hanging over the Western horizon. Articles on Frederick Mellinger, Hollywood's successful purveyor of sexy underwear; MacFadden-Bartell Publishing, publishers of True Story, Photoplay, and True Confessions; and corporate dress codes, from Bonwit's to United Airlines to California's Jeans West; are often fascinating, despite their sometimes under-researched, often slightly censorious poses. At least Rags has a firm clinch on its enemies. And its rather foolish compulsion to overkill with a succession...
With Rabbi Siegel at the helm, the boat may be rocking, but you can be sure that it is headed for a brighter horizon...
...Last week the Commerce Department reported that the annual rate of starts climbed to 1,715,000 in February, up from 1,306,000 in the same month a year earlier. George Romney, the ebullient Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, calls housing "the brightest spot on the economic horizon." If the surge in sales continues-a substantial if-builders may reach Romney's target of 2,000,000 starts...
Clavell's intentions are above that order: his story does have real possibilities as a vehicle for communicating the hypnotic attraction of humanist gemiitlichkeit amidst deteriorating world situations. Cross The Seventh Seal with Lost Horizon and you have a good idea of the conception's attractiveness. But it is in his attempt not to play with the material that Clavell manages to kill his situation's bite...