Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unstinting quest for novelty, Hollywood has really come up with something new this time: a Pope who gives birth...
...side of the sound tracks. At the piano, in jazz or in Brahms, his playing is fluid and sparkling with character, although he often seems restrained, as if afraid of damaging the keys. His podium manner is similarly unshowman-like-self-effacing, in fact-but his sure beat, his quest for clarity of sound and shape, have reaffirmed the L.S.O. as one of the world's best orchestras...
Written as he zigzagged about the U.S. and Canada trying to assassinate first President Nixon and then Wallace, the diary, replete with sometimes revealing misspellings, shows a deranged, crippled half-man in quest of his own destruction through that of another...
Accompanying the quest for a manager has been an assortment of obstructionist tactics, personal attacks and reversals of commitment seldom seen in more sedately traditional city bodies...
...prospect of earning more than $100,000 in Reykjavik has him talking about buying houses round the world. "You know, like what's-his-name?Onassis, who has his table set for him in places like London, Buenos Aires, New York." When he first started his all-out quest for the title in Belgrade two years ago, a reporter asked him what chess meant to him. He pondered for nearly a minute and then said it all: "Everything...