Word: savorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best or even as good as he used to be. He just wants to play hockey as long and as well as he can. We sit alone in a dressing room within an empty arena. The networks are not here. It is fine to savor sport this way, without packages, cans and nonsense...
...series chose its central preoccupation wisely. On paper, it would appeal both to snobs mourning the good old days and to libertarians rooting for the rise of the masses. The program's triumph was that things did not work out that way. Those who hitched on to savor the Bellamys' fall from grace remained to grieve and endure with them. Champions of the servants found it impossible to wish anything for them but the secure positions they were born to want...
Above all, what gives Between the Lines its special savor is the acting. To single out just a few of the relatively unknown but nifty cast: John Heard has wry charm and a quick satiric intelligence as Harry, the paper's erstwhile investigative ace, who knows it would be as phony to decry his lost innocence as to try to preserve it. Harry's girl friend, the staff photographer who is torn between career and romance, is well played by Lindsay Crouse. Stephen Collins is suitably slick as the ambitious book writer, and Jill Eikenberry makes a winsome receptionist...
There can be no time to savor the well-deserved victory over Boston College for the members of the Crimson hockey team. Even as Boston Garden employees scrape away the last traces of Monday night's ice, Harvard will be tested once again--tonight versus Cornell...
...contrast, a sensible modern materialist like Richard, who takes love easy and regards sex as an urge that can be indulged without guilt or passion, seems only half alive. Love and life, in short, gain savor from a sense of sin and self-denial. The stricture against eating the apple and the sword in Tristram and Iseult's bed are both powerful sharpeners of appetite. This is not artistic news, though the observation is now unfashionable. That being so, whether Marry Me is part apologia or all fictional serrmonette, one of its points could well be dismissed...