Word: letting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nothing has gone wrong so far in Carter's China overtures, but being a trusting man, the President does tend to let hope overwhelm fact now and then. Had he seen Peking, Carter might now be a little more restrained, better able to be sure about how far China has to go, how difficult that journey...
...Durocher, manager of the old New York Giants, gave a weeping rookie named Willie Mays after he had gone 1 for 26 in his major league debut ("Tomorrow's another day, kid, and you're going to be playing centerfield tomorrow"). Barrera said the decision not to let Cauthen ride Affirmed in the $200,000 Strub Stakes was "one of my hardest." But he earlier confessed, "You know what race-track people do fastest? Bury others." Still, it was Barrera who put Cauthen on Father Duffy, and gave The Kid the chance to break his losing streak...
None of this would be so upsetting were Altman not one of the few great di rectors in modern American film. Quin tet seems a sad rejection of all the artistic instincts that have fueled his best movies. In the past Altman has let art flow from life: he has allowed his characters to operate spontaneously and then permitted his films' meanings to grow out of the crazy-quilt action. This time around he has done the reverse. The characters are constricted by a trite, preconceived moral and soon become inanimate pawns in a pseudointellectual shell game. Quin...
Frank Mankiewicz, president of National Public Radio, a network of 217 stations, doubts that these stations, which lack TV's glamour, could ever attract much money from listeners. "It's hard to get an audience for fund raising," he says, "let alone raise the funds." For NPR, the matching grant scheme could be a death sentence...
...Let me see, what's the name of the place I mean? Capital of Japan? Yokohama...