Word: interest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...volunteers Ken Elaine, a retired cannery superintendent and a descendant of 1884 presidential candidate James G. Elaine, once accused of perjury and thereafter known as the "continental liar from the state of Maine." "We have less and less interest in each succeeding election. Things don't get better no matter who's in the White House. I looked for ward to a comfortable retirement. It won't be. I just retired and already I'm dipping into assets...
...restaurant, a handsome, prematurely gray lawyer, Edward Pell, is enduring a meal of fried chicken and french fries. Pell lives in Greene, Rhode Island but comes to New Hampshire "five or more times a year." His interest in politics is greater than normal because he is a cousin of Rhode Island's Democratic Senator, Claiborne Pell. Surely he has encountered some of the politicking, or heard a lot of talk about...
...fair number of trite lyrics and a structure which threatened to be as repetitious as Ellington. Part of this danger was averted by the element of directionality introduced--first, there was a temporal narrative: the growing up from adolescence of five girls. Although adolescent literature is usually of interest only to adolescents, even desperately mature undergraduates have been known to be nostalgic for 1974--it was precisely this rather self-indulgent "you-remember-how-funny-we-were" emotion that Cornelia Ravenal sought to exploit, and with some careful selection of material to fit her clearly defined audience, achieved great success...
...discomfiting question remains: what makes these films so riveting, when we would have little interest or patience for the same stuff on paper or in the hands of a less talented director? It is largely Carpenter's gleeful knowingness, in constructing a situation and co-ordinating an action, with regard to what his audience expects or surmises from any given scene. He tugs at the nerves most sharply through sly scare-tactics: close calls, delays, false alarms, the expectation and possibility of violence as often as the brutal thing itself. He can make sudden action at once surprising and coherent...
...Zivkovic having to divide his time between men's and women's teams in the off season, the women apparently did not receive enough attention. If the athletic department can dig into its pockets for money for a women's coach next year, their generosity may pay off with interest...