Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terminals. In Massachusetts and Maine, produce shipments dropped 40%. Hog deliveries in the Corn Belt were off by 75%. California Governor Jerry Brown sent a telegram to President Carter warning that agricultural shipments had reached a crisis stage: "Most of the California production is perishable and will be totally lost if the disruption continues...
...retraces the field where he once hacked away at milkweed plants, and sees "a froth of seeds" from the plants' descendants drifting by. Another sojourner in the past thinks of Detroit (where Levine, 51, was born), and then of snow; he translates it into the tears of souls lost and gone to heaven: and given their choice chose then to return to earth, to lay their great pale cheek against the burning cheek of earth and say, There, there child...
...whole enterprise has been directed like a five-alarm fire by David Wheeler, so that the dynamics of action and the definition of character are lost. One exception is the scene in which Richard woos Lady Anne (Penelope Allen) in the presence of the shrouded corpse of her father-in-law, Henry VI, whom Richard has murdered, as he has her husband. Here Pacino slows the jigging pace and his own manic mockery to make effective use of his macho sex appeal. This is not to propose that he next put Romeo and Juliet on his hit list...
BANJO DANCING, OR THE 48TH ANNUAL SQUITTERS MOUNTAIN SONG DANCE FOLKLORE CONVENTION AND BANJO CONTEST AND HOW I LOST...
When Wade hunches over his banjo, he is a figure of rapturous communion, a man lost in a love affair with an instrument. The songs may be poignantly plaintive, boisterously celebratory or ironically funny. His fingers pluck the strings with steely precision or waft over them like a passing zephyr. Always there is the pulsing drive of his ever moving feet, percussively accenting the chords and the words...