Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real quest of both sets of thieves is for some spark of genuine humor amid all these outrageous contrivances. The screenplay is little help. It keeps turning up yokel lines like, "Paris - that's near Europe and Asia." Caan and Gould fall back on a series of frantic semaphores to the audience, calling attention to how adorably prankish they are being. Director Mark Rydell's notion of how to give shape to a scene apparently is to make it louder and faster. This does produce an occasional laugh, just as somebody pounding a piano with a baseball...
...search for relentless relevance can go occasionally rhetorical, as in talk about "man's eternal quest for meaning, justice and truth." It can also turn a little too retroactive. Thus Abraham is labeled "the first angry young man" and Isaac becomes "the first survivor." But much may be forgiven an author who can look Adam in the eye and say, "Poor man: punished for nothing. And he wasn't even Jewish...
...George Wallace, the twelve-year quest for the presidency was over, laid to rest by Jimmy Carter. When he flew into Los Angeles for a last harrumph just before the California primary, only a pitiful handful of diehards greeted him. Time had passed him by, but he liked to think that the other candidates had caught up with him. Wallace told TIME Atlanta Bureau Chief James Bell: "Listen to what even candidates like Church and the rest say about welfare and tax reform, busing and Big Government, the bureaucracy and wasteful foreign aid and crime in the streets." Does...
...America-and in their own lives-registered sharply with the correspondents who reported this week's cover story. Joseph Kane, a former field artillery lieutenant whose beat is the Pentagon, observed how important it was to be "of the military but not in the military, to appreciate the quest for the ideal the officers.seek while at the same time assessing an illness growing from rigidity." Said Washington Correspondent Arthur White of his visit to the Naval Academy: "There was all the brass again, spit and polished in blinding white uniforms, yes-sirring and no-sirring and stirring old memories...
...also knew the lonely burden of her quest...