Word: rare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Senior Correspondent Peter Stoler, who wrote this week's cover story on the troubles of the nuclear industry, has a rare firsthand knowledge of the subject, including some hands-on experience running a reactor. During simulated exercises in 1980 at a training center for technicians in Morris, Ill., Stoler recalls, "I undertook a routine drill to bring the reactor back on line. It was supposed to be gradual, but I brought it along too fast and overheated it. If it had been a real reactor, I'd have melted it down...
...works were not extremely rare, the curator said, explaining that the Fogg has other works from that time period. She would not disclose the value of the objects...
...this subtle attempt to pacify the American public by sheltering it from the harsh realities of life has producing a disturbing, though by no means novel, phenomenon: Americans prefer banal fantasies and mindless mush to unpleasant docudramas or serious theater. Consequently, when film and television producers make the rare attempt to simulate reality, they generally wind up depicting unconvincing, one-dimensional characters, creating predictable, non controversial situations, and producing stories like One Day at a Time or Happy Days...
...Although film portrayals of the U.S.S.R.'s World War II ordeal are encouraged by Soviet authorities, Yevtushenko's movie may run into difficulties nonetheless. One of two nude scenes, in which a newlywed wife is shown naked to the waist, drew gasps from the audience. Nudity is rare in Soviet films, usually being restricted by the censors. Kindergarten also includes a reverential portrayal of an aging rabbi that could draw official displeasure since Jews and Jewishness are a virtually taboo subject...
...truth was best articulated by Coward in a moment of rare revelation: "Work is much more fun than fun." Only for composers, of course; for the recipients of Noël's and Cole's enormous labor, fun is far more fun than work. -By Stefan Kanfer