Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Director Michael Murray doesn't quite do justice to Awake and Sing, because he treats it overly like a period piece, pacing it gingerly and throwing varying degrees of strong accents into the mouths of his actors. The production abounds with significant pauses, which as a consequence lose all significance...
...himself in New Hampshire, where he is regarded as the front runner in the contest that starts the presidential primary season next March. Prefacing everything by saying, "If I become a candidate," he predicted "a close, hard fight in this state" that "I don't expect to lose." Both in New Hampshire and Chicago, his next stop on the way to Wisconsin, he was a genial, relaxed version of the old uptight campaigner. He even had some spare empathy for Johnson ("I've had a few problems with the intellectuals myself"), and in discussing the U.S. commitment...
...skilled professional" against Taft "the pleasant amateur." The Democratic Party has given Stokes enthusiastic backing, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. and the Teamsters Union are for him, and he continues to enjoy overwhelming popularity among the city's 120,000 registered Negroes (v. 200,000 whites). "I can lose the election only if I make a big mistake," says Stokes. Some of his supporters are worried that he already...
...from its liberal course no matter how much a solitary Buckley may prod. But the fun is in the prodding, as far as William Buckley is concerned. And if, through fire, flood, earthquake, atomic holocaust or even conservatism, the present-day liberal U.S. should expire, no one stands to lose more than Buckley. For he enjoys the best of both worlds: a society that is especially vulnerable to criticism from the right and equally willing to take...
...cover it." In many cases, important stories that do not readily lend themselves to pictorial treatment-such as the economic and social rehabilitation of South Viet Nam-get little or no air time. "You can spend several days digging out a difficult story," complains one TV correspondent, "then lose out on play to a bloody action story with no meaning or message." The result-war brought into U.S. living rooms every night-helps explain why it is that so many Americans are so frustrated over Viet Nam. One network staffer there says: "Why should I miss the big shows...