Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gonna make the bed/ With the hotel chambermaid ... Gonna shut the bellboy out tonight" runs one of his earlier odes to one-stop sex. Many of his best tunes, like Fool's Gold, portray quite another character entirely, a knight-errant on a lonely and probably hopeless quest for a shopworn Grail: "I'm a fool, so I'm told/ I get left in the cold/ 'Cause I would search the world/ For that fool's gold...
...Arthur Miller had not become a famous playwright, he might have made a top trial lawyer. The rhetoric of the courtroom comes naturally to him. So does the thrust and parry of confrontation. He relishes the niceties of assessing blame, pronouncing guilt and passionately pursuing the quest for justice...
...Price, this quest involves two brothers. The only guilty parties are the past and life's cruel way of wasting lives. The critical event for Walter Franz (Fritz Weaver) and his brother Victor (Mitchell Ryan) was the financial castration of their father in the Great Crash of '29. Victor abandoned his natural bent for science and joined the police force to provide a se cure home for the old man. Unwilling to share that responsibility, Walter cut out, earned his way through medical school and became a successful doctor. His bad nerves are the price of ill-buried...
...trials and tribulations of the suburban theatergoer form the basis of one of the skits: the quest for the babysitter, the snarl of traffic, parking traumas, reservations that have evaporated, and the final securing of seats in an abysmal location. Each sequence is set to some theater tune; singing "I can't believe these seats" to the melody of I Could Have Danced All Night doubles...
...mindedness would surely ruin any holiday. In any case, vacations tend to divide into the active and the settled. Some wish to be invigorated, even chafed; they run down Deliverance rivers in canoes or else try to explore exotic civilizations (if they can pay the fare). The vacation-as-quest can have wonderful epiphanies. In 1939 the novelist Lawrence Durrell wrote to friends from Greece (for him an ancient world newly found): "The country is so still and wild; valleys unbelievably remote and pure . . . if ever there were valleys and enchanted places where the charm still holds good...