Word: motionful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Slow Motion. To announce that Something Happened is a terrific letdown is only to make the obvious comment on publicized great expectations. But how exactly does it fail? To try to answer that question is to get into certain kinds of bankruptcy that have to do not only with American lives but also with the novels that struggle to record them...
...Birth of a Nation," directed by pioneer film-maker D.W. Griffith and released in 1915, presents a militantly anti-black view of the South after the Civil War. But as the first movie to use moving cameras and night filming, among other innovations, it is generally considered a motion picture landmark...
...government will respond to the trade unions' initiatives; how the government will attempt to distribute the burdens of inflation and depression; and whether Scotland will continue to be an integral part of the United Kingdom. All three issues, however, resolve themselves into a single difficulty--Britain's slow-motion economic collapse since the second world war has made ever-present class tensions the most decisive factor in contemporary British politics. The Scots, meanwhile, want to dissociate themselves from the London government in order to secure North Sea oil profits, which they see as the solution to their economic problems...
...announcement was a ploy to extract concessions from Washington, a small one came quickly. The House Ways and Means Committee voted to reduce, from 6% of assets to 4%, the amount that foundations must pay out annually in grants if their assets fall below a certain amount. Another committee motion, to reduce the excise tax that foundations pay on earnings, was narrowly defeated but will probably be brought up again. More important, the Bundy action can be construed as a blunt message to Washington: do something about the falling stock market and the inflation that ate up $400 million...
...their Hamlet context and making an existential comedy out of their dislocation; writing the ultimate parody of a murder mystery play and having his onstage critics sucked into the action in The Real Inspector Hound; creating a Professor of Moral Philosophy who tries to disprove Zeno's paradoxes of motion with a real hare and a real tortoise in Jumpers. Up till now, formulas like these have served Stoppard well--his plays have uniformly been among the most intelligent, enjoyable and effective theater of the last ten years. His new failure--Travesties--currently playing in London doesn't mean Stoppard...