Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...couple of the old gang wonder. Robert Towne says, "We haven't had a heart-to-heart talk in a long time." Sally Kellerman recalls that she and Nicholson used to share a funny code word which they used as a whispered greeting, "as our private signal that we still love each other. But I haven't said 'Boobs' to Jack in a couple of years...
...unsettling in the same way," or something to that effect. What must have been especially annoying for many members of the audience was the ceaseless repetition of a set of five short bleeps, followed by a sixth long one. The cognoscenti of course knew that those bleeps were the signal for the Israel Radio news on the hour, sounds which stopped all activity for the duration of the broadcast. But I wonder what the people who hadn't been there made of those bleeps, since, like almost every other sight or sound (including two speakers who talked extensively about...
Decay of the Angel is the story of Honda's involvement with a young man who appears to be a fourth incarnation in this series. Toru Yasunaga is a boy of sixteen, brilliant but poor, who works in a signal station adjoining a large harbor. Honda discovers him one day when out walking with a lady friend; when the boy reaches up to remove something from a shelf, the birthmark is revealed...
...call him in and say, "We've got the signal from across the river to put the hold on this." And that will fit rather well because the FBI agents who are working the case, at this point, feel that's what...
Changes of government are not in themselves a discouraging sign. On the contrary, they may signal the emergence of fresh leadership. In France, Georges Pompidou was succeeded by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, whose narrow victory over Socialist opposition marks the end of Gaullism but may mark the beginning of a new, more human exercise of power that will test whether France can exist short of "grandeur" without lapsing into disorder. West Germany's Willy Brandt resigned amid scandal; yet even in resigning he displayed a sense of responsibility that is itself an element of leadership. He was succeeded...