Word: pointed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once proud of its clean air, now has an air-pollution problem: so has the San Francisco Bay Area and even California's plastic Holy Land, Palm Springs. On Richardson Bay at Sausalito, houseboaters regularly pollute the waters with garbage and feces. Efforts of developers to commercialize areas of Point Reyes National Seashore in Northern California are only now being resisted, but the conservationists have not won that battle yet. Abalone and kelp fishermen are fast destroying their chief competitors, the sea otters ?who now number only 400 along the entire California coastline. The brown pelican is virtually extinct...
Strong and effortless, Cragun tactfully puts a matinee idol's figure at the service of his roles, making Romeo, Petruchio and even Onegin believable and remarkably affecting. The marvel, though, is Marcia Haydée. Experts correctly point out that she is not a great dancer technically. Most would turn puce at the thought of mentioning her in the same breath with Margot Fonteyn. But few dancers within memory have projected the rangi of whims and wishes or invoked the delicate interplay of emotions that flow from the least gesture of Haydée's body, the slightest...
...Shultz says. "Basically I regard myself as a professional person." It is perhaps that professional detachment that allowed him to refrain from intervening in a two-month strike of East Coast longshoremen last winter. On a visit to New York at the height of the strike, he made a point of ordering bananas for dessert-to show that the strike had a minimal effect on the normal flow of goods...
Fowles' technique is to take a ready-made 1860s plot and tell it from a 1960s point of view. It is like a reincarnated Thomas Hardy revising one of his tales from the vantage point of films, Freud, space shots and Alain Robbe-Grillet. On one level, this yields an engaging parody of the Victorian novel-with chatty narrator, digressions, subplots involving cockney servants and narrative juggling. The technique also enables Fowles to compensate for some of the Victorian novel's omissions and evasions, particularly that dark side of the Victorian moon, the bedroom...
...robbed characters of reality. While the Victorians believed that "the novelist stands next to God," Fowles takes his stand next to Godot. He proclaims that the novelist's first principle is the "freedom that allows other freedoms to exist," namely those of his characters. To illustrate the point, he twice ties up his narrative strands in tidy traditional endings, then backs up and unwinds them again in tangled, less conclusive but more believable alternate endings...