Word: move
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rosen condemns the move away from stoic, traditional analysis...
...seven-person general primary early in the month--than the press had dubbed him heir apparent to that shaky framework of bureaucratic cobwebs and dubious city bonds that is the New York municipal government. New Yorkers had rebuked the Beame administration, the papers asserted, and wanted to move on to the brand of humane but firm fiscal conservatism that Koch promised. The Congressman, not one to decline a crown so generously offered, immediately began acting mayoral, going so far as to name a transition team to take over the government only two days after the run-off. And although Cuomo...
EACH OF THE CHARACTERS in Song of Solomon has his own burden, some trauma from which he must free himself if finally, he is to move beyond the mental confines of the ghetto. Only Milkman's aunt Pilate is free. She was odd from birth--she never had the choice of conforming, because she has no navel, no connection to even family. She is eccentric, living outside respectability with her daughter and her daughter's daughter, off the proceeds of her homemade wine. Pilate, in her unkempt and mystical way, is not bound by the conventions that trap ordinary people...
During the first half of the game, the move looked as though it was going to backfire as the Harvard squad, playing almost entirely in Princeton territory, failed to score. Coach Bob Scalise said he thought his team looked "a little sluggish...
Casting Diane Keaton in the role of Dunn has proved to be a wise move by Brooks. Her past appearances in various Woody Allen films have left American audiences with a very tangible image of the actress: an often capricious yet charming woman who generally musters the strength to resist the prodigal nebbish's amorous advances. Keaton has tackled a character in Looking for Mr. Goodbar who is virtually an antithesis of her previous roles. Her Theresa Dunn is a willing woman, to put it charitably, a closet nympho who repeatedly allows herself to be sacrificed to the discredited altar...