Word: lurch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bill Woestendiek, the newsman fired by Washington's WETA-TV because his wife was hired to flack for Martha Mitchell, has a new job as editor-publisher of the Colorado Springs Sun. Wife Kay will join him as women's editor, leaving Martha in the lurch. That will hardly bother the Woes-tendieks' new boss, Vegas-based Publisher Hank Greenspun. After Mrs. Mitchell's famous call asking the Arkansas Gazette to "crucify" Senator Fulbright for his Carswell vote, Greenspun wrote an editorial suggesting that she made the call after "toasting the ill health of every Communist...
...know she can, of a range of tones and rhythms, and soar and admonish and implore and pout and sing her way to complexity. The soldiers are unremittingly declamatory, laboring to render each line as massively as possible. They don't speak to each other, but keep trying to lurch into Shakespeare's execrable Titus Andronicus oratory. Too many speeches are self-contained. The wonderful music of speech, and the counterpoint of the scenes themselves, should be woven into breathing movements of lyrie felicity and heroic urgency. The company tends to interrupt speech with gesture, but this is a small...