Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In your phonetic rendering of woof ticket, the pronunciation is correct, but rather than being a "wolf ticket (meaning a challenge to fight), it is a "woof ticket (meaning a bluff). One often hears the term woofin' to mean that someone is in a sense barking, not yet committed...
For the past few months, though, Cuba has been campaigning aggressively both to seize the leadership of the movement and to steer its political direction squarely into the orbit of its principal ally, the Soviet Union. Cuban delegates insist there is a "natural alliance" between the nonaligned movement and the...
A major problem is that the adult characters are caricatures. Writer Judith Ross clearly wants to create the kind of people one finds in Woody Allen and Paul Mazursky films: well-intentioned, articulate neurotics whose comic behavior exposes their internal pain. Unfortunately, Ross has a tendency to sacrifice believability for...
Meetings with Remarkable Men is the hip '70s answer to Hollywood's oldtime biblical kitsch. Once Cecil B. DeMille re-created the glory days of Moses in glorious Technicolor; now Director Peter Brook is giving the same treatment to G.I. Gurdjieff (1877-1949), the philosopher whose Zen-like...
There are moments when Didion overdoes her performance of journalism-as-nervous-breakdown. "I was in fact as sick as I have ever been when I was writing 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem,' " she wrote about the title piece of her brilliant 1968 collection. "The pain kept me awake at...