Word: ponderer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Gaullist aides began to ponder ways to get him back into the legislature, where, if elected, he was likely to become majority leader. Trouble was, no Gaullist faction in France itself wanted him. But at last a constituency was found where Debre seemed unlikely to lose. Last week the former Premier gulped hard and accepted a bid to run for office on Reunion Island, a tiny French dot in the Indian Ocean nearly 6,000 miles from Paris...
...their warships maneuvered miles apart. France and Brazil at week's end seemed in no danger of trading shots. But Frenchmen, who each year eat 2,500 tons of lobster, nearly a third of it imported from such lobstering grounds as Brazil's, were forced to ponder an unsettling choice of loyalties-palate or patrie-and ask themselves, what price grandeur...
...abroad-the now waning tax advantages, the cheap labor-but those are often just very good excuses for what the stars, producers and directors want to do anyway: get out of decaying Hollywood and go off to foreign playgrounds for a jolly good time. Hollywood historians are left to ponder whether the films have taken the people away or vice versa...
This simple tale is told with extreme sophistication of style. Cameraman George Ancona produces images of poetic loveliness-but the eye is not allowed to linger on the loveliness. The amateur actors are cast with acuity and seduced into expressiveness-but the eye is not allowed to ponder their expressions...
...shop in Spoleto, Italy, leans against an ancient Roman wall topped by an abstract angel of golden bronze. Women in rusty black shawls on their way to Mass at the Church of San Domenico step gingerly past a giant iron spider. Families sipping Campari in a sidewalk cafe ponder a guitar cut from steel and mounted on a flatcar. All over town, modern sculptures of bronze and steel and iron loom over fountains, peer from alleys (see color}. Now that the initial shock is wearing off, the Spoletani are getting used to and even beginning to like what they...