Word: shaded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Members of the TIME Newstour [Nov. 16] have made an important observation that has been ignored by those who formulate our foreign policy. The tour to Eastern Europe and the Persian Gulf prompted some of its participants to voice their surprise that Communist ideology comes not in one shade of red, but several...
...Sergeant of Police, John Sneath has a chance to display his sensationally rich baritone. Sneath is another gifted deadpan comic--at times, a shade too deadpan, perhaps. One wishes he would give his role just the smallest extra measure of hamming-up; as it is, he narrowly misses blending in with his force of policeman choristers altogether...
...narrow gully bakes like an oven in the fall sun, and the canyon that engulfs it is silent, save for an occasional magpie's cry. Under a juniper, two cowboys hunch for shade and wait for a signal...
...irritate Soviets" is an extremely difficult task: usually they get irritated by the slightest shade of disobedience. Naturally, they must be "irritated" by Polish events: it is obvious they would know what is going on in Poland even if the Poles refrained from "openly" discussing the reform of the system. Besides, it is impossible to separate, for instance, the reform of the economy from the reform of political life, or the debate on democracy from the debate on censorship. These things are closely linked and any suggestion that the Prague Spring of 1968 would have succeeded if only censorship...
TAKING AS HIS SUBJECT this lesser half of a noted pair, this shadow of a shade, Brinnin is unable to sustain the same degree of focus and self-effacement he shows in his other studies. He does not have the same interest in Toklas as in Capote, and he does not pretend to. Rather than follow a character's progress and transformation, because of a simple curiosity and fascination for that character's doings, he ignores the character at hand, striving to reach through and beyond Toklas, to Stein. Brinnin's goal, the biography, undermines his intent to depict Toklas...