Word: liven
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...baseball fan, do not count on movies or specials to liven up the week. There is nothing at all noteworthy on the film front. Channel 2 offers a debate on nuclear power tonight at 9 p.m. Governor Michael Dukakis will moderate the verbal clash between a former U.S. Treasury department deputy secretary and an attorney. Better than Howard Cossell, but just barely...
ANOTHER MEMORABLE SCENE has Benson, whose bloodstream is described by his roommate as "purer than Rocky Mountain spring water," taking a hit of speed at practice to, er, liven up his game. Of course, he goes absolutely wild, running around and jumping up and down like a madman while his teammates stand around and giggle helplessly. Benson is a fair actor, but his part doesn't demand all that much besides wide-eyed innocence, with an appropriate burst of emotion. Spradlin turns in a solid performance as the fiendish coach, and O'Toole is passable as the lover. The worst...
...more often, the author's obvious personal intelligence, coupled with that which he bestows on his characters, including the women, counteracts the nose in the air excesses. The theatrical, artistic and literary allusions (not to mention numerous Harvard Law School alumni) that Auchincloss generously strews throughout the novel usually liven, rather than overburden his dialogue...
Bolwell, now a TIME senior editor and formerly an editor with the New York Times and managing editor of the Toronto Star, says he and Murdoch both want "to turn the Post into a dynamic paper and get the town buzzing, to liven up the New York scene." Bolwell plans to emphasize hard news and breaking stories, to cover the arts, business and sports more fully, and aim the Post at "the entire middle class." Despite Murdoch's reputation for turning some of his papers into scandal sheets, Bolwell insists there is no such plan for the Post. Says...
...Wakefield, 73, creator of the tollhouse chocolate-chip cookie; of cancer; in Plymouth, Mass. In 1930 Wakefield and her husband opened an inn in an old tollhouse on the Boston-to-New Bedford road. One day she decided to add chocolate bits cut from a semisweet bar to liven up her mother's cookie recipe. The creation was an instant success. During World War II, millions of tollhouse cookies were shipped to servicemen overseas...