Word: men
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...terrifying kiss the ringmaster at last discards for a moment his detached domination of the scene, covers her figure entirely (we see only his back to the camera; the two are exactly aligned in depth). Thus Ophuls reduces to its most brutal terms the subjection of women to men, a subjection which informs the entire film. The relation of these two independent artists, romantics who know the desperation to which their wills must lead them, is different from any other relation, full of the tension between likes...
...reason for the low cost of mobile homes, which constitute the only truly industrialized housing available on a large scale in the U.S. today. Skyline's nonunionized workers commonly earn up to $12,000 a year because base pay is increased by an incentive system that keeps the men on the run along the production lines...
...Decio was one of six men featured in TIME'S cover story on young millionaires, Dec. 3, 1965. Since then, his wealth has risen from...
Author Charyn knows how to make a pratfall out of a pitfall, how to convert sordid realism into a sort of surrealism. The residual moral is as harrowing as the punch line of a good black-humor joke is meant to be-what cruelly absurd ends men are capable of reaching simply by being cool and reasonable...
...record, both men are classic American types, sprung to eminence from provincial poverty by their own exertions: Daniel from a soda-jerking job in Zebulon, N.C., Reston via an impoverished childhood in Scotland and a U.S. boyhood in the Midwest, partly spent working as a caddie. Readers in search of profundities and nuances will be more satisfied with the portrait of Reston, perhaps because Talese implies that Daniel's surface is Daniel. Reston's Horatio Alger idealism and Establishment pieties Talese wryly ascribes to a successful immigrant's fervor for his new-found land. In assessing...