Word: puzzlements
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...course, the most revealing source of material on Dylan remains his songs. The puzzlement over his evolution from "Blowin' in the Wind" to "Lay Lady Lay" can be alleviated through an openminded listening to the music. The early songs, no matter how inspirational to the liberal conscience, represent a fairly immature psychological stage. Dylan willingly casts himself in the role of preacher or moralizing adult, a man with the answers who wished them to be heeded. He was able to do this extraordinarily well because his protests were articulate, often beautiful, and in tune with what many Americans liked...
...Fate. A measure of the puzzlement in the diplomatic community was provided by a Soviet diplomat in the U.S. Asked by a reporter about the goings on in China, he countered anxiously: "If you hear anything, you'll let me know...
...most enraging scenes in Basic Training seem, at first, incidental to the film's major themes. At their center is a scrawny private named Hickman. He's average height, has a thin, sucked-in face with no forehead to speak of; he is pasted with puzzlement, and he walks as if he doubts he can make...
Consequently, Royko confesses puzzlement that Daley's most consistently loyal constituency is in the black ghetto wards. Their loyalty, though, may be due to the diligence of Democratic precinct workers, who remind the voters that the continued receipt of welfare checks is somehow inextricable from the franchise. Then, being thorough in their work, says Royko, they accompany the voter into the polling booth to make sure he does not forget...
Painter Riley's development spans a ten-year arc from the aggressiveness of her early black-and-white images to the imperiled quiet of such new stripe paintings as Apprehend, 1970. First reactions to her work may run from puzzlement to nausea. But Riley has always denied she means to hurt the eyes, aiming only for "a stimulating, an active, a vibrating pleasure." But not relaxation -the pleasure is existential, a tuning of the consciousness. In a picture like Cataract III, the eye has no resting place. The viewer scans the inexorably waving lines with something akin to mounting...