Word: panning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This fall he accused the New York Times's Richard Eder of such "tergiversation, equivocation, doublethink and simultaneous talking out of both corners of his mouth as took his predecessor, Clive Barnes [now at the New York Post], years of painstaking practice to master." Colleagues are quick to pan Simon in return: "The Count Dracula of critics!" (Andrew Sarris, the Village Voice); "The Transylvanian vampire!" (Robert Brustein. Yale Drama School); "Personally offensive!" (Brendan Gill, The New Yorker). Many of Simon's critics, however, would not dispute his immense erudition and frequent fairness. Says Harvey Sabinson, a director...
...sexual revolution is passe. We have gone from Pan to pots. The Great American Love Affair is taking place in the kitchen...
...Crissier near Lausanne: "You don't always need expensive products. A ragout of canned tuna can be delicious. Even potatoes can be interpreted in many ways. Never kill natural flavor by oversaucing or overcooking. Do like the Chinese: pop things in and out of a piping hot pan immediately...
...himself and his story firmly planted on the icy ground. He carefully provides the dimensions of the Yukon River cabins he visits, often numbering and describing the items of furniture in them. He lists some 30 uses that Alaskans have found for 55-gal. drums, describes how contemporary miners pan for gold and tells how to operate a dog sled up a hill. The dozens of Alaskans he sought out and listened to come trailing clouds of particulars. McPhee can capture a character with the economy of a good short story writer: "Harry is the kind of man who shakes...
That face belongs to freshman Olympian Bobby Hackett. Hackett, silver medalist in the 1500 meters at Montreal, gold medalist at the 1975 Pan American games, and two-time A.A.U National champion, is the kind of blue-chip athlete and personality who can transform a fairly strong program into a great one, who can attract name swimmers from all over the country, who can catapult a team into the national rankings--in short, the kind of athlete who comes to Harvard very rarely...