Word: move
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...GREEK DRAMATIST, the spoken word was a new-found tool with which images could be sculpted, ideas persuasively conveyed, and emotions rendered with vivid eloquence; to the visually-oriented modern film-maker, it is a pain in the ass. In movie versions of great poetic dramas, nervous directors often move their cameras too much, nor enough, or at the wrong times, and the result is that visual and verbal elements constantly elbow each other aside, yielding neither great drama nor great film, but a tentative mess with little emotional force of its own. It is highly significant that perhaps...
...grimness of Poland, the civilized beauty of France. Conversations with the likes of Prime Minister Desai of India and President Giscard of France will enhance his sophistication in foreign affairs. People were interested in Carter, seemed to like him and respect him. He did not excite them or move them. Yet he seemed to leave every country with a better feeling about him and the U.S. than it had when he arrived...
Thus pressure is growing for the New Jersey Casino Control Commission to move faster, before any investors go bust, or turn to mob moneylenders. The danger, of course, is that a combination of greed and need will overcome caution and good intentions, making it easier for the underworld to penetrate legal gambling in Atlantic City...
Thousands of civilians had to be evacuated from Viet Nam border settlements to safer places. One of the evacuees was Nguyen Him Oanh, 26, who decided to keep on moving and finally escaped to Bangkok. "We had to give up our cloth and spice shop and move along the road east," she reported. "Then we had to dig bunkers and bomb shelters. Every day I saw Vietnamese soldiers going toward the border in trucks, with tanks and artillery. Just before I escaped, I saw the bodies of 20 Khmer Rouge laid out along the road. Our soldiers put them there...
...Vietnamese seemed unlikely to move on to the Cambodian capital. Such a move could possibly invite the reluctant intervention of the Communist superpowers. Moscow has supported North Viet Nam since the earliest days of the war with the South, aiding Hanoi with loans for food and economic development. Peking, too, has given economic aid to Hanoi, if only to maintain a competitive position there with Moscow. At the same time, China, despite its distaste for Pol Pot's more-Marxist-than-thou zealotry, has continued to support Cambodia, where the Soviet Union has no leverage...