Word: lurchings
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...lesson of the worst postwar money crisis is that the non-Communist world is running out of time in which to repair its financial system. The speculative explosion that tore through the banks and bourses two weeks ago demonstrated that permitting the system to lurch from one upheaval to another is no longer a workable policy. The world's financial and political leaders have two choices. They can unite on basic updating and reform of the rules that have promoted the free exchange of goods, tourists and money across national borders. Or they can retreat to competing nationalistic policies...
...responsible. Calley, who is well aware that he was his own best witness at the trial, considers himself by now an expert on the horrors of war. He has said that he would some day like to make a combat movie so realistic and grotesque that the audience would lurch from the theater and vomit on the sidewalk outside. For many, the My Lai testimony has long since made such an enterprise unnecessary...
...over a century later, with a continent conquered, plundered, and replundered, Americans continue to lurch fitfully through the confines of their pitifully lengthened lives. We no longer smile. Our institutional jesters fail to amuse us. When the President invades and bombs Cambodia we greet the announcement with a nervous giggle and call it an "incursion." And the women come and go, of course, talking of our recent "entry into Cambodia...
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...