Word: outlet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While America looked on numbly, Joe McCarthy bullied Senators and scholars in his wild search for Reds in high places. Thousands of boys went off to Korea in a war that was as complex and controversial as the one in Viet Nam, but protest found its outlet at the polls, not in the streets. Ike's promise, "I shall go to Korea," was enough to quiet the nation. In the '50s the flag remained unassailable, the military beyond challenge. After all, only a few years before, another group of boys had gone off to war and had returned...
...bureaucracy, his only outlet may be a reporter who will protect his anonymity while publishing the facts. Most newsmen feel that without leaks, the Government would simply control all news about itself...
...novel where Tarnopol has tried to order the disorder of his marriage lies, in reams of rejected drafts and re-drafts, in several cardboard cartons. On them the writer has pasted a quotation from Flaubert, speaking of how art can become "an outlet for passion, a kind of chamberpot to catch an overflow. It smells bad; it smells of hate." So, however, does Roth's book, despite all the cool distance of formal self-consciousness: it is impossible to read a book which treats a writer's life with such sordid particularity and not find oneself automatically extending the sordidness...
Neighboring Mozambique provides landlocked Rhodesia with its principal outlet to the sea. The Portuguese territory is also a major infiltration route for black Rhodesian insurgents returning home from training camps in Tanzania. Black rule would mean a certain end to the virtual carte blanche that Rhodesian security forces now enjoy to go guerrilla hunting in the Mozambican bush. More important, a new government in the territory's capital, Lourenço Marques, might well refuse to transport Rhodesian goods by road and rail to Indian Ocean ports-meaning economic disaster...
Among all the flaws in this movie-the numbing literalness, the flagrant absence of subtlety-nothing is quite so wrong as Cybill Shepherd. Bogdanovich installed her in the lead as if she were some sort of electrical appliance being plugged into an outlet. Shepherd has a home-fried hauteur good enough for the one-dimensional roles she played in The Last Picture Show and The Heartbreak Kid. She knows how to strike poses for the camera (she used to be a fashion model, after all), but she has no resources as an actress. She runs short of breath...