Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Truck traffic is equally relentless. Each night a fleet of some 1,000 convoy trucks rolls out from hiding places in limestone caves and bunkers and moves south. Each driver covers the same 15-to 40-mile stretch of road again and again until he can negotiate it blindfolded. There is a reason for that: headlights must be dimmed or even doused for much of the trip because of marauding aircraft. At the end of his run, a driver unloads his cargo at a transfer point and heads back for more. Each section, called a binh tram (logistical support) system...
...most fascinatingly dour LPs in rock history. Part psychoanalytical printout, part notes from a Dostoevskian underground, part black comedy, the music has a morbid, Mussorgsky-like power that makes it hard to believe that its author once wrote I Want to Hold Your Hand. Working Class Hero a relentless dirge with the style and strength of Bob Dylan's Masters of War?has the ring of hard-lived truth...
Different Forms. "The Chief of State is like the flag," says ABC's Smith. "You have to be deferential. The head of Government is nothing but a politician, and you can be rough and relentless with him. We combine the two in one person-the President-and suffer all the psychological stresses usual when you adopt two contradictory attitudes." Smith prefers the British system: "You bow and scrape to the monarch, but you raise hell with the Prime Minister...
...Confession is the latest effort of the brilliant Greek director Costa-Gavras, who made Z. The new film is savage, methodical and painstakingly realistic; it is also static, relentless and thoroughly dispiriting. It closely documents the horror of a staged Stalinist purge trial, yet lacks the creative energy to convey the vibrancy of terror...
Died. Max Lincoln Schuster, 73, co-founder of Simon & Schuster and a major figure on the American literary scene for nearly half a century; in Manhattan. Schuster's favorite question was always "Is there a book in it?" while Simon's was "Will it sell?" A relentless collector of ideas, Schuster personally selected and rejected manuscripts, encouraged authors such as Robert Ripley and Eddie Cantor, with his practice of assigning books rather than waiting for them to come in, and somehow found time for substantial work of his own, notably the popular Treasury of the World...