Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quest for entertaining copy, the critic all too often falls into what I call the "Time Magazine Syndrome:" the witty dig, the cutting remark, the clever put-down. It usually takes the form of word-play--perhaps a pun on the film's title, or on an actor's name. Sometimes the put-downs are more involved, bringing in associations from previous films, or the personal lives of the people who made the film, or aspects of the film itself. The one thing that all forms of this syndrome have in common is that the put-down is gratuitous...
...deploring the Hiroshima and Nagasaki massacres. He tells of proposing that Truman make a goodwill trip to Hiroshima seventeen years after the war. Truman's response was, "I'll go to Japan, if that's what you want, but I won't kiss their ass." Miller comments on this remark: "I expect what Mr. Truman meant was that while he was perfectly willing to explain why he had decided to drop the Bomb, he wasn't going to apologize for it, he wasn't going to say it was wrong. And for all I know, he wasn't wrong. Maybe...
Kilson replied, "I don't know what remark. My figures [that appeared in the Bulletin] are the official figures. It's not a lie to interpret those figures...
...hasn't been such a good evening," said Prime Minister Golda Meir ruefully, as she arrived for a meeting with Israel's President Ephraim Katzir - beating the legal deadline for forming a new government by only 45 minutes. Mrs. Meir's remark was something of an understatement. Despite almost two months of intense negotiations, she had been unable to form a broad-based coalition and was forced to announce the first minority government in Israel's history. Her Labor Party, which won 51 seats in the election last December, along with two allied splinter groups will...
Writing personal histories, but not evaluating specific games or chess theory, Schonberg displays arresting personalities and tells dozens of famous stories. There is the remark with which Tarrasch began his 1908 match with then world champion Emanuel Lasker: "To you, Dr. Lasker, I have only three words, check and mate." He lost. Or Paul Morphy, the American who was acknowledged as the world's best player during a career of only a year and a half in the 1850s, and who died insane, a hater of the game. And the Cuban Jose Raul Capablanca, arguably the greatest player...