Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...charged with making false statements in his financial records and willfully misapplying bank funds. The long-expected indictment added no startling revelations to the saga of Lance's financial maneuvering-and it did not in any way directly involve President Carter-but the 71-page document portrayed in relentless detail the foundationless house of credit that Bert built...
...sentimentality, there was more interesting drama. Jane Fonda, anathematized for years because of her radical politics and trip to Hanoi during the war, won the Best Actress award for her role in Coming Home, an antiwar film focused sympathetically on the suffering of wounded American veterans. (Fonda, who is relentless, gave half of her acceptance speech in sign language "because there are 14 million deaf people in this country." New York Daily News Critic Rex Reed wrote bitchily that it "looked like an audition for The Miracle Worker. ") Jon Voight, who played opposite Fonda as a paraplegic...
Sometimes the game has inspired an author's best work. In Harris' Bang the Drum Slowly, the relentless, impersonal demands of a tight pennant race counterbalance the emotions stirred by a third-string catcher's lingering, fatal illness...
...billion dollars over the next five years. Assuming the Corporation formally agrees--which now seems almost certain--Harvard will launch a five-year, $250-million fund drive some time this fall, a grand scheme that administrators hope will bolster Harvard's massive $1.4 billion endowment in the face of relentless inflation...
...quite as grim as its plot: characteristic Simon wit surfaces frequently. For instance, when George accuses Leo of fixing him up with a prostitute, his brother indignantly defends the girl, and then asks. "Why, did she charge you?" On the whole, however. Simon avoids his usually relentless parade of quips. Chapter Two possesses none of the slick quality that mars some of his earlier plays, which made his characters sound like professional stand-up comedians, not believable human beings. Instead, the humor approaches the way people actually talk or joke, and even helps to crystallize one's impression...