Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...polls, and the governor still spends most of his time struggling against his own misanthropic image. And so out in Montauk, where Perry's people are readying the boats for a winter season of dark surf and sharp winds and streaming silver fish too small to catch, the mood is light despite the weather. In early November, after all, the fluke start running, and it looks like a good season...
Candidates utter words like "protest," "arrest," "jail," "march," "unity," and "fight." Many students seem in a combative mood, although they have yet to find an issue worth fighting over. The candidates are forced to answer questions revealing their stands on such issues as Harvard's investment policy and the constitution's minority representation clause...
Carter's assault on the bill, in which he was opposed by all Democratic congressional leaders, was part of a presidential campaign to exploit the anti-inflationary, antitax, anti-Government-spending mood of the voters. Fiscal conservatism appears to be part of Carter's philosophy; although it appeals to many middle-class voters, it also threatens to alienate traditional Democratic supporters: blacks, labor leaders and the poor, who advocate such costly social programs as national health insurance and greater aid to the cities. Trying to keep such groups in line, Vice President Walter Mondale went to Minnesota, Missouri...
Time magazine likes to call it the "New Mood on Campus"; those of a less charitable bent might refer to the phenomenon as "festering pre-professionalism.' But for the average Harvard student, the list of most popular courses released this week--top-heavy with guts and premed courses--contained few surprises...
...Altman has rendered ludicrous some overused Hollywood techniques of establishing mood and tone, he has developed and refined others. His use of color is particularly striking. The monochromatic brown shading of McCabe and Mrs. Miller conveys the cold bleakness of the northwestern frontier, and the blue tones of The Long Goodbye are appropriate to the twilight world inhabited by Philip Marlowe. Perhaps Altman's most effective, moving use of color to establish mood is in Thieves Like Us (1974), a beautiful, elegiac story of innocent young love in the Depression-era South. He saturates his images with green and yellow...