Word: sinkings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...classmate at the University of Arizona recalls that whenever Udall, as captain of the college basketball team, "got his hands on the ball at center court, he'd shoot." He's still playing the long shot now, firing away from center-left court, hoping to sink...
Trudeau's use of repeated backgrounds, a cinematographic technique, lets characters develop and philosophies emerge because the sets never upstage the actors and the message. I think any film director would be delighted "to strike an attitude or sink a platitude" in only four frames. Try it some time...
...grimy residue mixes with the water again. "That's how it is with your cellmate," the warder puts in, "There are dirty things in his head that he doesn't even know about. As long as they remain, none of our friendly criticisms will be able to sink...
...acre campus. Without it, the school had no hope of getting regional accreditation. Worse, Hargis has given the college only limited access to the names on the fund-raising list that all the Hargis organizations formerly shared. Says Noebel: "He's been telling everyone we are going to sink. Well, obviously we will sink as long as he holds the mailing list." Some 70% of the school's income comes from contributions. Enrollment has dropped from 228 to 160, and since word of the scandal spread to parents one teacher has talked 25 of them into letting their...
...professions: funny-paper illustrator and political commentator. The only difference between Garry Trudeau and Eric Sevareid, say Doonesbury fans with some hyperbole, is that Sevareid cannot draw. But then, neither can Trudeau. An indifferent draftsman, the artist is usually just good enough to strike an attitude or sink a platitude. But at his best, Trudeau manages to be a Hogarth in a hurry, a satirist who brings political comment back to the comic pages...