Word: latters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mates decked out in boots and leather jackets, and Juliet (Judy Buxton) playing her balcony scene atop what looked like an abstract painting. Also at Stratford, R.S.C. Veteran Alan Howard, directed by Terry Hands, was essaying both of Shakespeare's Richards, II and III. In the latter, a sort of cooked-up Jacobean melodrama, Howard hobbled about a raked stage somewhat more fleetly than he actually managed some of the lines...
...while not as clearly defined as possible, are believable, even if their settings are not, and King has the sharp visual acuity of a filmmaker as he shifts time and space to effect. His faults are few, but they're major: he is both overly cute and excessive. The latter is his undoing. He lacks the keen awareness that less is indeed more, pushing his hefty narratives far past the point of credence, and ultimately, enjoyment, as if a book had to weigh a lot to be good...
Democrats in office will conform increasingly to the new orthodoxy, and change will roll back, a Sisyphean boulder down the slope of the latter curve. And even if the pause lasts only a decade, it will be too long. The great experiment of the last century, conducted primarily in the United States, has been to see if we could keep the wave from crashing, somehow moderate its peak or build up its base so that it never hits shore. Americans, in 1980, have given up on that experiment, which demands quick analysis and dramatic, constant change, with hardly a look...
Garrity continued to move the William and Mary offense in the game's latter stages, but Crimson linebacker Mark Layden stifled the comeback effort with an athletic interception near midfield and the Crimson went 43 yds. before Dave Cody's 30-yd. field goal clinched the win, Harvard's third in three non-league encounters...
...holy war, to "liberate the house of God in Mecca" - in effect, an incitement to overthrow the Saudi government. Saudi Arabia's normally placid King Khalid angrily denounced Gaddafi as "a Muslim outcast who deserves God's wrath" and as "a spearhead of Israel against Islam." The latter charge was both insulting and ludicrous, in light of Gaddafi's vehement hostility to Israel...