Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they will make their assessments is impossible to determine-maddeningly so for the candidates and their image makers. But in contest after contest, it is plain that party affiliation and positions on all but a few emotional issues (abortion, busing, gun control) are of less concern to most voters than their general perception of the candidates' honesty and integrity. In races in which one candidate has been brushed by scandal-no matter how lightly-polls indicate an impending defeat, generally...
...mile flight from Urumchi to the Soviet border discloses the Chinese vulnerability to incursions from the north. The Dzungarian basin spreads into a hard, flat, open plain beneath the P'o-lo-k'o-nu Mountains, ideal tank and tactical-air-strike country. Kazakh boys who ride bareback through the surrounding pine forests must beware the leopards that still roam the foothills of the T'ien Shan range. The border-control point is a 600-yd.-long bridge across the Ili River, where the Chinese claim that the Soviets continue to infiltrate agents. They also say border...
...cares less about the sophisticated Boston scene. He rarely ventures beyond the Patriots' headquarters in suburban Foxboro. Besides, Back Bay is hardly the style of a man whose cowboy boots were scuffed not by walking sidewalks but by trudging over furrows. As he puts it in Grogan plain-style: "We don't have anything like Boston in Kansas...
...bonkers bounty-hunter Robert E. Lee Clayton, finally got paid ($1.5 million, to be exact) to thumb his nose at the world and, like some aging belligerent artiste at a cocktail party, to eventually become a public bore. Not that the script--running from saccharin to soporific to just plain stupid--gives the hefty Brando any leg up. Not does the film's only female presence, a cattle baron's educated, sensitive, bored and basically horny daughter who sums up her view of the prairie with a quote from Samue Johnson: "A blade of grass is a blade of grass...
...images in Autumn form brilliant thematic patterns. In the first chapter we see unforgettably "dead craters of harsh moon ash on the endless plain where the sea had been," we hear "a disaster of hoofs and animal sighs from behind the fortified walls," we smell "the lunar dust-covered rosebuds under which the lepers had slept." Such descriptions return to haunt us, as they do the patriarch; they are fragments of a real or created past, the whole of which we do not know and he has forgotten...