Word: objectness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...caliber of the interviewees; unlike Rex Reed, Shenker doesn't have to resort to bitchy observations to spice up vapid quotes. Inevitably, some of the conversations are not all that fascinating, and at least one--a piece on Noam Chomsky as a linguist--is downright boring, an object lesson in how words can get in the way of an explanation. But the book as a whole is remarkably rich; most of the interviews can stand rereading, and the lighter pieces in between make enjoyable breathing spaces...
...with what seems to have been great effort, layer over in tractable layer. The fruit appeals to nothing but the sense of sight. It is inedible, untouchably distant, dense and gray as a little cannon ball, and so irreducible in its compactness that it could no longer be the object of appetite...
...eventually they stop going." There are critics, of course. While lay-led Catholic services are commonplace in mission countries like Africa, and have become popular in priest-short areas such as East Germany, some of the French clergy still see them as dangerously close to Protestantism. Some parishioners object too, but they are, says one Rodlinghem layman, "the same ones who haven't approved of the Mass since it stopped being said in Latin...
...harnessing ocean currents to using the earth's magnetic field. Now researchers at the Atomic Energy Commission's Lawrence Livermore Laboratory have conceived perhaps the most imaginative scheme of all. They propose tapping what might well be the ultimate energy source: a "black hole"-a small celestial object that is trillions of times denser than ordinary matter...
Here, however, the object of the obsession is so thoroughly without mystery that it comes to look like little more than a stubborn caprice. With a Gatsby crippled by such a dismal Daisy, the movie must be sustained by its secondary characters. There is little enough strength there. As Daisy's friend Jordan Baker, Lois Chiles seems to be fighting off unsuccessfully the effects of a massive dose of Novocain. George Wilson, the poor garage man who kills Gatsby, and his wife Myrtle are impersonated by Scott Wilson and Karen Black in little bursts of lunatic melodrama...