Word: lurchings
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...honey, journalists flock to a winner; it is both glamorous and exciting to herald the victor's progress. Crouse suggests that this feeling unconsciously prompts reporters to fashion their subject into a winner, to write stories that too exuberantly predict his success. Sometimes they are left in the lurch, like the disillusioned reporters who roseately optimized Muskie's rortune but suddenly discovered that the bus had run aground without warning...
Isadora, or Erica, was left rather in a lurch. Feminism said to her, men are pigs, Liberons-nous, and she agreed. Analysis said, the language of the male world, the language by which you have defined yourself, is stuck in orbit in your head, and she agreed. Feminism said, you mean stuck like an enemy outpost, dig it out or shoot it down. Analysis said, not so easy, remember how guilty you tend to get, you'll punish yourself, you know--and how she knew. So she dilly-dallies. She draws a bead on the old need, she stiffens...
Taylor continues to lurch along the emotional curve between peskiness and seeming paranoid schizophrenia. She tries the patience of her unctuous second husband (Laurence Harvey) and frays the nerves of her best friend (Billie Whitelaw). Finally plans are made to ship her off to a Swiss sanitarium. No matter what she says at this point, it is doubtful that anyone would believe...
...Fitzgeraldian teenagers. He even trots off on an Arabian Nights adventure in Morocco. Effective and colorful as some of this is, what does it have to do with Hughes' larger theme? The interrelation between private and public realms seems to have broken down. The narrative tends to lurch from near-history to near-fiction ("But Hitler, Strasser-how could these distant rivalries ever matter to Coventry...
...Shultz, CEA Chairman Herbert Stein and COLC Director John Dunlop, can deal effectively with the difficult problems ahead. Says Economist Pierre Rinfret, a Republican and an influential adviser to Nixon: "Shultz and Stein are incompetent. They are a disaster. All they have demonstrated is the ability to lurch from one short-term solution to another." The assessment is overly harsh, but it does reflect a wide frustration inside and outside the Administration with repeated failures to bring the economy into line. Phase IV could well be the Administration's last, best chance to restore public confidence in its ability...