Word: sit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...While the early chapters describe childhood and adolescence in a fairly straightforward manner--"because my life followed a pattern then"--the later ones, describing her development as an actress, mix past and present, like a mind that jumps spontaneously from one thought to another. "Even if I were to sit down here and describe my career to you," she says, "I wouldn't be precise and orderly; I would go from event to event." Indeed, she attributes her love of the theatre to its quality of "free association...
...family on a first childabuse report is also a touchy, and often a profoundly harrowing, moment. The worker is instructed to be cordial, helpful, as direct as possible. And never to show anger - which is likely to destroy any chance there is of parental cooperation. "I used to sit in the car a few minutes before going in, psyching myself, making a deliberate effort to be calm," Belisle recalls. "But I almost ruined one case by blowing my top." That was when he entered the house to discover that the parents had tied a baby hand and foot...
...banistered staircase to the second-floor library with its old books, dark red walls and white trim, the men in the diplomatic delegations take their coats off and settle elbow to elbow at a small round table. They are mindful that Andrew Jackson and later Abraham Lincoln used to sit in that room and debate American affairs with their hosts...
...extraordinarily liberating force this discovery is." The almost pathetic hopefulness of the motto of the Tuskegee Institute class of 1886?"There's always room at the top" ?finally gave way to the angry oath of a Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee leader in 1965: "If we can't sit at the table, let's knock the f???-legs...
...book, his mania produces the possibility of a brilliant escape. He yells to the crowd of onlookers, "Frenchmen! This is a rehearsal ... A famous film actor will presently come running out of this house. He is an archcriminal, but he must escape Hold those policemen, knock them down, sit on them - we pay them for it." In the movie he says these lines, but, un accountably, only after he has been captured, when the old master's marvelous conceit has lost its point...