Word: pow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than others. Mine came last year when I was the only woman elected to the board of directors of our local teachers' organization. When we sat down for our first meeting I was given a pad of paper because it was naturally assumed that I would take notes. Pow! The message was loud and clear...
...believe that the children (aged about 9 and 11) regard any thing Quint says as literally true. Chil dren are often cruel but rarely that stupid. Quint lapses into a sodden, brogue-trotting Irishman, who mumbles to Miles, "If you love someone, sometimes you really want to kill them." Pow! Wilde! The governess drowns in the tarn - from an acute case of sabotaged rowboat. Quint is struck down, like St. Sebastian, by Miles' bow and arrow...
...short attempt at reverential attention. The Vietnamese made two speeches--little rhetoric, little new, little substance. The Seven Point Peace Plan, which told Nixon if he set a date for withdrawal of all U.S. military forces from Vietnam, the Vietnamese would agree to a ceasefire and release the POW's, was repeated in part. The Peace Plan, the breakthrough in the lifeless Paris talks that Nixon had chosen to ignore, was now being "put to the people rather than the diplomats," one of the speakers told the rally. Now it was the job of the people to get Nixon...
...French Connection is a knockout police thriller with so much jarring excitement that it almost calls for comic-book expletives. POW!, ZOWIE! The film has all the depth of a mud puddle, but Director William Friedkin (The Night They Raided Minsky's) sets such a frantic pace that there is hardly a chance to notice, much less care. The connection is a French businessman (Fernando Rey) who arrives in New York City with a multimillion-dollar shipment of high-grade heroin stashed underneath a car door. By dumb luck, a couple of tough narcs get onto the deal...
...quit public life. Though he continued to make recordings (including the cleverly innovative Pet Sounds), he sometimes would not come out of his Bel Air house for six months at a stretch. Among other things, he erected a tent that filled his living room (for top-secret Beach Boy pow-wows), and covered the floor of his dining room with a huge sandbox...