Word: quested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...misuse of the word to call this rationale fascism. Pauline Kael called Straw Dogs "a fascist work of art." It is. Its director. Sam Peckinpah uses the actors and the camera to teach his lesson with skill and finesse. The lesson, however, is classic fascism: the quest for the meta-experience of violence as a validation of existence, along with a contempt for and brutalization of women...
That encounter 18 years ago was the end of Hackman's slipping and sliding. Although he had never thought of acting before, he joined the Premise, an off-Broadway theater-not so much in quest of stardom as simply to get some meaning into his life. By last week, when he stood onstage in the Chandler Pavilion clutching his statuette, he had found both. He has become one of the best-liked of Hollywood professionals, a shambling, shirtsleeves type who actually uses words like "golly" and "gee" and is still married to his first wife after 14 years...
...year, and to $1,517,637.19 for his ten-year pro career) was notable not merely for where it left him-firmly established as the world's top golfer-but for where it might lead him. For this year the 32-year-old Golden Bear is unabashedly in quest of golf's sweetest pot of honey: a Grand Slam of victories in the four major championships...
...Staff, and released last week by Rep. Michael Harrington (D-Mass.) clarifies our importance as students opposed to the war. If the United States were released from "domestic restraints," notes the memorandum, it might undertake amphibious operations against the North or bombing of the irrigation ditches in the quest for victory. Clearly, Nixon is not deterred any longer by the risks of confrontation with the Soviet Union. The likelihood of bombing Soviet ships had forestalled the bombing of Haiphong in the past. That risk is now a reality. The only remaining restraint is that imposed by the American people...
This year, sad to say, will be no exception. Baltimore may just be the strongest team in baseball, even without Prank Robinson, who has travelled out to L.A. to help the Dodgers in their pennant quest. Barring wholescale injuries or a total collapse, Earl Weaver's team won't have a great deal of trouble remaining on their traditional perch on top to the division. Their pitching, by a conservative appraisal, is almost strong enough to sustain the pennant drive alone, with no help form the offense...