Word: quickened
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...Walter Schmidinger does protean work. The rest of the cast is excellent too, but because Tim is the only one who fully grasps Bergman's philosophical idea, he is the only one who can express a full range of free, unpuzzled emotions. His wisdom, compassion and anguish briefly quicken and warm a bleak film that is more interesting to analyze than to attend; for the fact is that Bergman has set himself a most formidable artistic task in this film. Marionettes, obviously, are less than human-the dead playthings, in Bergman's scheme of things, of a dead...
...harder on first novelists, and is certain to curtail lesser-known writers' advances against royalties. The Hollywoodizing of publishing and the boom-or-bust psychology that pervades the industry have made it more difficult to place first novels and nonfiction without mass appeal. The Thor decision can only quicken this trend. Few publishers are likely to take risks on little-known authors without at least a guarantee of a tax break on his unsold books. First printings will be smaller, and second printings may become a rarity for trade books that are not bestsellers. In addition, declining backlists...
...Muskie sipped orange juice the other morning on the seventh-floor balcony of the State Department and doubted that other nations deliberately try to influence our elections. What happens, he judges, is that events always quicken around a U.S. election, and foreign powers hurry to protect their own interests in a time of political change. The fallout echoes through our nation, and it can influence a vital segment of the electorate...
There were indications at a high-level NATO meeting last week that the tempo of the pact's modernization program might quicken the spending increase. France and Britain are updating their own small nuclear forces. Europe has also strengthened the alliance by defying Soviet protests and allowing the U.S. to deploy medium-range nuclear missiles in some countries. To bolster NATO even more, the U.S. is asking its friends to assume further responsibility for their own defense, thereby freeing American forces for duty in the Persian Gulf and elsewhere...
These crafted poems are a roadmap of Seamus Heaney's soul. In them he has left Belfast and the political images of past volumes and retreated to the fields. He's headed to the coast, "through flowers and limestone" to eat the day "deliberately, that its tang/Might quicken me all into verb, pure verb." And an active, transitive verb at that. Heaney always places himself in each animated poem: in a record of his four sequestered years in the country, he wanders from the water's edge to open shed, from a stone pier to a deeply tilled...