Word: moment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flexible policies, his easy use of hyperbole, his variable definitions of statements have sometimes suggested a man so bent on capturing friends that language became too casual. In his eagerness to cast himself in the best light, he occasionally appears to bend the facts to fit the moment. His skein of contradictory statements about the reasons for firing U.S. Attorney David Marston, who was probing political corruption in Pennsylvania, was most likely one of those convenient misunderstandings, probably a tiny incident in Carter's mind to get him over a small embarrassment...
...that Jimmy Carter has accumulated a new sensitivity to the other world leaders and their cultures, gained a clearer view of what moves nations and an instinct for the proper moment in which to speak and act. He will need it. He has a way to go to recover the world's confidence...
With her pleas, she saves Rome and delivers Coriolanus to his doom. The look of ashen grief frozen on Foster's face at that moment is desolating. Running in repertory with Julius Caesar, Coriolanus makes an auspicious seasonal debut for this new Black-Hispanic troupe. -T.E. Kalem
...Ozawa the biggest task was trying to rehearse the Shanghai Philharmonic in Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 "Pathetique." As usual, time was limited. He seized the moment quickly, placing members of his own orchestra among local players so that Boston Symphony Orchestra musicians could demonstrate a point of technique rapidly. Then he plunged ahead, a riveting little figure dressed to silk-screen perfection in a mod-Mao white suit by Designer Hanae Mori. He virtually pummeled the unruly sound into order and expressiveness, right leg stamping the beat, arms punching deep into the recalcitrant horn section...
...dialogue is as tersely as any Hawk's film, and it is often difficult to tell whether the actors mouthing it are sarcastic or inept. All the same, spry gusts of parody whip around the edges of certain lines and actions. There is for example, a disarmingly silly moment when two of the men trapped in the station, squabbling about who should risk an unlikely escape attempt, settle on a quick game on one-potato two-potato...