Word: knits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...question of putting the other guy down," the pre-med said. "Diving is more social than swimming can be because you can talk between dives but you can't during laps. Swimmers need to be a little hostile to each other, I think, but divers can be close-knit within themselves...
...descript double-knit vest and mute-grey suit, his shirt bulging conspicuously at the waistline, Filartiga looks more like the semi-retired family g.p., benevolent but dilapidated. Nearsighted bug eyes peered out of thick spectacles. His roly-poly, bumbling figure gives him the image of a jolly plump man, not one laden by the responsibilities of nursing 37,000 mestizos who depend on him alone for health care...
Clearly unwilling to preach about "moral dignity," Vonnegut instead spoke in parables and metaphors. Channing lived in America's close-knit "folk society," Vonnegut said. It was an "American Atlantis, swamped by the waves of immigrants...
...primaries have proliferated, the role of the parties has diminished. The candidate builds his personal campaign structure. This tightly knit, often amateur group, its fortunes wedded to one man, is inevitably antagonistic to the party, a situation that carries over to the White House when the winner arrives there. Alan Baron, who was a chief instigator of party reforms and now publishes a newsletter, the Baron Report, in Washington, feels that Carter won "on the basis of being able to appeal successfully to individual voters, not on the basis of building coalitions and forging ties among various groups that...
...THIS IS not to argue, as many critics would have us believe, that Kramer is the film of the 1970s. Benton commits himself early on to the tightly-knit parallel construction and works well within this simple framework--the shopping scene and the breakfast scenes are terrific; but details go unexplored. Why doesn't Ted hire someone to take care of the kid? The bulk of the film develops the growing bond between Ted and Billy. All this time, Joanna presumably ests out in California making love to real estate developers and talking with $500-an-hour shrinks. She disappears...