Word: slow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comments on this political year that finding a candidate who carves out time for books is such a unique experience. Carter had to slow his pace of three books a week to win the Democratic nomination. But during his interlude in Plains, while waiting for his opponent to be chosen, he resumed his regular pace. "I keep three or four books going at a time," he says. He went through a biography of Teddy Roosevelt, a President he admires. He read Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns and eagerly welcomed the author a few weeks later when...
...read 1,200 words a minute, so he was able to continue consuming books even in the White House. Carter also took a speed-reading course but claims no records; yet he fully intends to keep up with important books should he win the November election, though campaigning will slow his consumption until then...
...many sins as a bishop might curse with bell, book and candle. He is found guilty of coaching and poaching?i.e., taking shots from his wife's side of the court. Of preaching and reaching and teaching. Of cheating and bleating. Of serving too fast. Of serving too slow. Of hitting the ball right at his female opponent. Of not hitting the ball right at his female opponent. Of bad tennis, bad sportsmanship and, above all, a bad mouth. Women who attend Gallwey's classes have no trouble recognizing the angry voice of Self 1: it is their husband. They...
Yates can make reading about humdrum pathos - the slow smashup of befuddled lives - invigorating and even gripping. He knows how to pace his material for maximum interest - when to summarize, when to show a scene in full. The dialogue is artful enough to sound natural. In his descriptive prose every word works quietly to inspire the illusion that things are happening by themselves. Even Emily's walk-on lovers are able to stand - as characters - on their own two legs...
John Wayne, moving slow and seeming winded, appears here as one John Bernard Books, last of a breed. Books is a fast-draw artist, a gunslinger or, as the movie's title phrases it, a shootist. He has dispatched some 30 men over the course of a long career that is coming to a painful close just as The Shootist begins. J.B. Books comes riding into Carson City, gets examined by his friend Dr. Hostetler (James Stewart), and hears what he feared: he has cancer, and a few days to live...