Word: peering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gamesman, a high salary is important mainly because this is the way the game is scored, and he doesn't want to fall behind the others. He sees his salary not in terms of becoming rich, but in comparative terms of staying ahead of others in his peer group...
...crowded tour bus with "Gay Head Sightseeing Tours" emblazoned in bright blue on its side parks in front of the Gay Head cliffs, spewing out tourists who have come to eye the rapidly eroding clay cliffs and to peer at one of the few towns in the Notheast with a predominantly Indian population...
From his office on the 38th floor of the ABC building in Manhattan, Fred Silverman can peer into the office of CBS President Robert Wussler, just across 53rd Street. Occasionally the two men wave at each other from the heights, like rival aviators saluting before a dogfight. But sometimes?when he is trying to woo a star away from another network or plan a secret strategy?Silverman, head of ABC's programming, draws his drapes: if he can look into Wussler's office, Wussler can look into his, and Silverman does not want anyone, especially anyone at CBS, to know...
...dimension, a fact, a clarification." To Arledge, the news anchorman's function, "if there is a function, is not just to read a lead-in to a piece of film, but to provide reaction to a story, put it in perspective. Anchor people are concerned with peer acceptance. They find it degrading to educate people because they think they are talking to the intelligentsia. We had a good interview with Sadat, but nobody explained when he mentioned Gaddafi. Not only the slob on the street but the average educated people who go to '21' or whatever wonder...
...REMAINING three pieces do not use such obvious theatrical devices. In "Cervidae," choreographed by Luise Wykell, Jim and Lorry crawl, never standing upright, at times like insects with spindly legs extending skyward, at times like bears rubbing noses. "Peer," choreographed by Patrice Regnier, deals with emotions that one friend called "primitive," another "childlike." Again, the animal tinges the human character. And finally, "Duet," from Anna Sokolow's "Lyric Suite," omitting the shading of animal character, presents the passions of young lovers...