Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...either script writer Alan Sharp or director Arthur Penn--it seems hard to tell which because their contributions never mesh. The screenplay is crafted and literary, almost pretentious, and it leaves the rest of the picture scrambling below. Full of slightly pretentious lines, the script will drop an enigmatic phrase and the camera won't cover for it--the statement is deserted-with its pants down and the audience is embarassed...
...that point. McCone echoed the protest. Nevertheless, a memorandum circulated two days later by Air Force Major General Edward Lansdale, a counterinsurgency expert attached to McNamara's office, included a mention of a plan for "eliminating" or "liquidating" or otherwise doing Castro in-no one remembers the exact phrase...
...country," as John Adams used that phrase in 1774, was Massachusetts, and he called his colony's delegation in Congress "our embassy." For Jefferson, until much later, "my country" usually meant Virginia. The decisive resolution (introduced in the Continental Congress on June 7, 1776, by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia, seconded by John Adams and adopted on July 2, 1776) that provided the occasion for the Declaration of Independence declared "That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States." Even until the Civil War the nation was commonly described in the plural...
...proof, see Donald Zee's Sophia (McKay; $8.95). By now, Sophia Loren's ascent from the rubble of Naples to the gold of Carlo Ponti should be as familiar as the tale of the princess and the frog. But to Zec, a British journalist, each incident, each phrase, is worthy of a marble bas-relief: " 'Sometimes I felt I wasn't having the baby for Carlo; I was having it for the world,' smiled Sophia." After such reportage, an audience cannot be blamed for doubting even so gifted a performer when she avers that despite...
...been described as an "angelic cowgirl." At times the phrase fits. Dressed in fringed shirt, jeans and high boots, working over a Merle Haggard favorite like Bottle Let Me Down, she can produce a brassy twang. But Emmylou Harris' emotional singing style owes more to melancholy Appalachian bluegrass than to western swing. Despite its range, her voice is most telling because of its feathery delicacy, an almost tentative dying fall capable of stirring deep emotions. "I would rock my soul in the bosom of Abraham," this evocative voice promises in her best song so far. "I would hold...