Word: sags
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thank you, Mr. Morrow, for the wonderfully flattering Essay [March 14], which has me breathing rarefied air. It's one I shall read again should my spirits sag (and they will) as I attempt new projects...
Rawlings has the whole ball manufactured in Haiti, whereas Spalding made the balls domestically and shipped them to Haiti-where labor is cheaper-to be stitched. One theory is that the extra trip made Spalding's balls softer; they suffered from jet sag. Absurd? Sure. But what else is there to talk about on Grapefruit League buses? Tax shelters...
...depth and nuance. The argument has not been put to the test because the networks have been unable to persuade local affiliates to extend network news to 45 minutes or an hour. But what they do with the time already available does not favor their case. Their newscasts regularly sag, at about the two-thirds mark, into some forgettable feature. Why the evening's main story does not instead get that extra moment of rounding out has a lot to do with the networks' obsession with pace, variety and the eye appeal of film...
...Tokyo had now become the enemy themselves. In the Halpern film, only Dalton Trumbo explains the awful terror that came with the subpoena, the process of "getting ready to become nobody." Halpern shows the progressive effect of pressure and time on the writers. They age, dry up, crease and sag--but those with spirit make their physicality irrelevant. The polar two in the film are Trumbo and Edward Dmytryk...
...Long Island, the hard-driven anemometer on the Vanderbilt yacht Vara registered, a windspeed of 91 m.p.h. before it self-destructed. The bell of Sag Harbor's Old Whalers' Church tolled crazily until one last lifting gust, like a petulant child with a toy, tore the steeple completely off its base and dashed it to the ground. In New London, Conn., the element of fire joined the element of wind, raging from 4:30 that afternoon until 11 in the evening. And then there was water-"water, water everywhere," as one witness remembered. By the time the last...