Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That relentless quest for self-knowledge has led her to the Masai tribe of Africa, the mountaintop villagers of Bhutan, the Indians of Peru, often on the spur of the moment. She explains, "I would make a beeline out of the country in an effort to find myself I would clarify my value system by plunging into a different one." She regarded her career at times as a nuisance. "I was most interested in working out my own identity, and the characters I played took away from that," she says. "Now that I am happier, my desire for travel...
...entertain such high expectations of divestiture. We do not think Harvard's action alone will lead directly or immediately to the elimination of apartheid. Our realism cannot be taken as argument against divestiture, however Public conscience changes very slowly, and only by immense, relentless, cumulative effort. In our moral decision making, either individually or corporately, we cannot expect to "succeed" in a direct cause-and effect...
...sketch a simplistic, two-toned play about a milk truck and a coal truck. Often, too, he is so ready to find himself guilty of every kind of moral inattention and to punish himself unsparingly that his soul searching comes to resemble breast beating. Yet Fugard's relentless self-scrutiny guards him from the traps of self-indulgence. "Do I pose?" he asks himself. "I don't think so-but I'm very given to tears...
...champagne glass, fixes it in his eye, and one bubbly tear slides down his face. A 1930s hard-boiled hero, based on the young Jean Gabin, reappears 20 years later as the aging Gabin's Inspector Maigret. There is plenty of verve here but little charm; the relentless closeups favored by Director Ettore Scola (A Special Day, La Nuit de Varennes) turn every character into a comic-pathetic gargoyle. It is left to the nostalgic sound track to evoke the emotions of a nation as the Na zis stormed in and the Americans took over and the Revolution failed...
There comes a time when newspapers, so relentless in pursuit of wrongdoers in government, find that they have wrongdoers on their own staffs. It can happen anywhere; what matters is what the newspaper then does about it: Does it hush up the story, or go all out to report...