Word: savorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Spenser, are filled with echoes of the masters. But Parker is really not a pirate. Instead, he resembles film makers like Jean-Luc Godard, who pay homage to great directors of the past with little vignettes so blatantly similar in style that no aficionado could miss or fail to savor them...
...threatens to stifle it. In the first of the three movies, it's Christmas Eve. The snow comes down gently, as it should, the Seine winds placidly in the story-book background. Some diners-out offer an old bum money to watch them eat, so as to add savor to their meal with a reminder that progress--which they like as little as Renoir does--hasn't leveled all distinctions yet. The bum pockets the leftovers from their meal, shows up some patronizing rich folks who think they know all about poor people, waltzes through an imaginary chateau with...
Nicholson knows the jungle rules of Hollywood and acknowledges them when he says, "Once they want you, you can be certain the day will come when they won't any more." Now he can savor the effervescence of his new celebrity and know too that for him that day will probably not come. He is well enough established so that the work will be there for him, maybe not always quite so prime, but always available...
Maintaining the islet of anachronisms was no joke for Dame Sibyl. Nor was it merely a commercial venture designed to bring 50,000 tourists to Sark each year to savor medieval folkways and buy tax-free cigarettes and liquor...
...much of the trip, Kissinger seemed unable to savor his contribution to Nixon's triumph. He was morose and uncharacteristically aloof, having threatened to resign on the eve of the flight to Cairo over the continuing accusations that he was less than truthful about his role in national-security wiretapping (see following story). That was unfortunate, since the changes in the Middle East have been nothing short of astonishing since Kissinger went to work in the wake of the October war. Eight months ago, Egyptians regarded Nixon as the villain who was sending Phantom jets to the Israelis...