Word: roll
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Poetry, essays and autobiography were to roll from her typewriter. Anne Sullivan died in 1936 and Helen went on with Polly Thomson as her companion. Her house burned down and with it the manuscript of her book about Anne. The house was rebuilt, the book rewritten. The travels continued: to Asia, Africa and South America as well as throughout her own country...
Then Virginia patted her Clairoled pouf, pinned on a diamond as big as a blintz, and walked out to plant her guests around the living-room-style set. As soon as the four of them had adjusted their on-screen smiles, the TV tape machines began to roll. "Hi everyone," chirped Virginia, "and welcome to Girl Talk...
Death in this movie has a definite Grand Guignol quality. People don't just fall down and lie there with a stain on the uniform and maybe a twitch or two. They writhe and roll, gurgling and spouting the red stuff in enough quantities to make even a paratrooper throw up-which John does with emetic realism. There is also a double helping of portentous stream of consciousness on the sound track, plus some heavy-handed message mongering that is both otiose and silly. "Just you and me," observes one of the characters, lying near death in an inferno...
...Quilt) and record al bums (Joan Baez, Buffy Sainte-Marie). An enemy of the idea that every piece has to be "a big deal," he composed deliberately casual chamber works for parties and coffeehouses. Mostly for his own amusement, he wrote ragtime piano pieces and rock 'n' roll songs...
...basic agreement; and while the Paris talks are going on, debate with Humphrey is blunted. It is easier to differentiate them by their style. Kennedy's is tense, urgent, gritty. When the crowds are not attempting to steal his clothing, he will often take off his jacket and roll up his sleeves before talking. He shoots statistics that occasionally misinform but more often impress. His gestures jab and chop; sometimes his hands and lips betray in little movements the taut nerves within...