Word: letting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the Knesset adjourned, the Israeli Cabinet Committee for Security and Foreign Affairs took up the treaty. It could find no way of breaking the deadlock. Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, though exhausted by the protracted negotiations, pleaded that both sides must keep trying. Said he: "We can't let the President leave in this spirit. The U.S. is the most important ally we have. We have to reopen the door for further negotiations." To which Begin retorted: "It is up to the Americans to decide whether they are leaving or staying...
...egoism and talents of the performers. From the first moments of parody of the informality of improvisational theater, we were being asked to watch ctors playing parts rather than the parts themselves. The parts became vehicles for the considerable abilities and egos of the artists: it was always "let's watch Corneila play this or that function." Hence we could see each character only at individual points without any sense of transition: this lead to my doubt at the end of the show. They did stop the scenes seeming repetitive, and offered us an emotionalism missing on the mainstage...
...three wishes," Carpenter said in an interview last year for sight and Sound magazine, "one of them would be 'Send me back to the 40s and the studio system and let me direct movies."' Carpenter's cunning proficiency, the workman like spit and polish of his low budget productions and his obvious debt to and affection for earlier movie-makers have tempted a number of critics to consider him a clever contemporary heir to several 40s and 50s directors whose exciting grade-B films have been sauvely generalized under the label film noir. Just now, with the success of Halloween...
...Alamo. Witness the protagonist of Peter Gent's novel, the washed-up cornerback Mabry Jenkins. Witness one of Gent's Texas morons, backed by oil money and an inordinate belief in the destiny of Texas, saying, "We could join OPEC and if them Yankee peckerheads don't like it, let them freeze in the dark. Texasisthe frontier and the frontier is for the strong individual. He stands or falls...
Stand on their own? The oil depletion allowance? Enormous public subsidies for the arenas their gladiators fight in? Soon-to-be deregulated natural gas? The Warren Commission? That's what I call standing on your own in a heroic way. Let's nuke it back to the Stone Age and start again...