Word: parroted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over his bourbon, while Dooley Wilson, as Sam, plays a little something of his own-Rick's smoky Club:Americain where Claude Rains wins at roulete, where Bergnan's arrival earns Sam's state-Peter Lorre's escape, Sydney Greenstreet and the Blue escape, Sydney Greenstreet and the Blue Parrot. Conard Veidt, Bogart and Bergman and a lighthouse. It's the best melodrama, with unforgettable mood and many great characterizations. Director Michaell Curtiz integrated all the sentiment, all the style, to make a movie to be seen a dozen times...
...thicket of verbiage protects, and supports, the most banal propositions. Recently, an artist named Jannis Kounellis showed (among other things) a live macaw, sitting on a perch that projected from a steel plate. "The parrot piece," Kounellis explained, "is a more direct demonstration of the dialectic between the structure and the rest, in other words, the nature of the parrot, do you see? The structure represents a common mentality, and then the sensuous part, the parrot, is a criticism of the structure, right?" Stripped of its jargon, this is a not very surprising revelation that parrots are not perches...
Hachette launched a $2,000,000 promotion campaign, ridiculing French journalistic "conformity" and promising Le Point's independence of everybody, including owners-a slap at Servan-Schreiber's control of L'Express. Stung by Servan-Schreiber's charge that Hachette would use Le Point to parrot the government line, Publisher Olivier Chevrillon and Editor Imbert argued that since Servan-Schreiber's entry into partisan politics, "L'Express has ceased to be a true newsmagazine." Le Point, they promised, would be objective...
...TIME'S inappropriately titled "Highway Robbery" article [Sept. 11] was poor journalism. Three horror stories out of millions of satisfactory auto-service cases a year don't suffice to condemn an entire industry. Neither is it right to parrot the authors advice to boycott franchised automobile dealers for service...
...rather get drunk, the Square lets you do it either in quiet or in noisy surroundings. A nice place to get quietly bombed is the Blue Parrot (123 Mt. Auburn St.). The sangria is so good and refreshing you can drink it like water and the music is softly calming (although canned). A little louder is the Casablanca (40 Brattle St.), and a little hokier the Toga Lounge (1274 Mass Ave), but both can get you smashed without spending a fortune. Cronin's (114 Mt. Auburn St.), a traditional Harvard beer-drinking establishment, should be avoided because of the owner...