Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film--Midler's return to the transvestite club she once haunted, Midler's gutsy rendition of "When a Man Loves a Woman"--but director Mark Rydell must be the most pessimistic man behind a camera. There is no comic relief, no reminder that, in the long run, good can prevail, no hint that justice is done. If you take away Rose's guts, you're left with an awfully familiar theme--only the good die young. So what else...
...Yale-Cornell contest pitted the nation's top-ranked defensive team, Yale, against the Ivy League's best offensive eleven. Through three and one-half quarters, it seemed like offensive power would prevail, as the Big Red, after trailing 17-6 at the half, stormed back to lead 20-17 with six minutes to play...
...illusions about their collective clout, especially head to head with Opposition Leader Phyllis Schlafly. Says Cosmo's Helen Gurley Brown: "All the women's magazines together may not be as effective as Phyllis Schlafly with her rabble-rousing TV appearances. But we hope reason will prevail...
...appears that in the Rev. Jerry Falwell we might have a potential "Christian Khomeini" on our hands. If Mr. Falwell's philosophy were to prevail, what would happen to teachers, preachers and politicians whose points of view differ from his? What would become of schools and textbooks not in harmony with his theology or political philosophy...
Richard Nixon was President when the conventional wisdom decried the exercise of power; his critics asserted that America would prevail if at all because of the purity of its motives. But it was precisely the unpredictable, idiosyncratic nature of a policy founded on this illusion that needed to be overcome. Emotional slogans, unleavened by a concept of the national interest, had caused us to oscillate between excesses of isolation and overextension. The new "morality" was supposed to extricate us from excessive commitments. But moral claims lent themselves as easily to crusades as to abstinence; they had involved...