Word: missed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your Essay about abortion [Aug. 1], you seem to miss the point of the antiabortionists: we want to stop the killing of innocent human life. If we can only stop the poor from getting abortions, we may have to be satisfied with that, however "unfair" it may seem to those who consider killing a right...
...perform in the movie, your article casually made mention of his flying round the world in 90 sec. with Lois Lane in his arms. It all sounds romantic I grant you, but anyone else would realize that this stunt is impossible-if not for Superman, then certainly for Miss Lane...
Given an arbitrary height of 300 ft. at which to fly, the distance traveled in 90 sec. would be a mere 25,000 miles. To make it in the alloted time, Superman would have to travel at a cool 1 million m.p.h. This may be within his capacity, but Miss Lane could never survive. The air friction at that speed would reduce her to a pile of red-hot carbon ash and cruelly terminate her affair with our red-caped hero. Finally, it is unlikely that Superman and his lady love would even stay in earth orbit at the speed...
Nixon was certainly a worthy target on which to vent such feelings, and while it is highly unusual to write history in terms of personal rage, Mee somehow seems to capture an underlying anger that conventional histories of the Watergate era miss. He relates a mood with an effectiveness that no objective account could offer, but with an air of authority that a straight piece of fiction or biography would not provide. It is Mee's style that makes the book a cohesive and meaningful treatment of "the wounds that Watergate inflicted on the American psyche" (as the blurb...
...playgoers with their consummate craftsmanship and their sophisticated badinage both onstage and off. Though for many years the Lunts had been living a simple life at their 100-acre country estate in Genesee Depot, Wis., Broadway marquees were darkened for a minute in Lunt's honor last week. Miss Fontanne once said, "I can't imagine going on without...