Word: socko
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only understood what needed to be done but had the strength, the self-discipline and the resolve to see it through." The crowd interrupted a number of times with applause and ended with a standing ovation. By any standard, Maggie Thatcher's debut in the U.S. was a socko performance...
This uneasiness is a common response to films Paul Schrader (Blue Collar, Hardcore) has a hand in. They always begin as intriguing notions, but Schrader is willing to sell out themes, characterization, simple dramatic logic in order to serve up a socko scene or a happy ending. One guesses that here the producer and co-writer started out to make a trendy feminist tract about taking just revenge on male inadequacy, then found that Diane desperately needed humanization. Star and director obliged, but the result is an incoherent mess...
...good convention, like a good novel, has rising and falling action and a socko conclusion that leaves customers eager to return next time. The International Fiscal Association spent $20,000 to hire Soprano Leontyne Price, Conductor Arthur Fiedler and the National Symphony Orchestra for the final evening's entertainment. The Hyatt Hotels Corp. offers ten "theme packages" for the concluding blowout, including Monte Carlo night, rodeo parties, an Arabian Nights banquet and a Tom Jones party, in which the ballroom is filled with trees, grass, live pigs, chickens, llamas and a tame tiger, while guests gnaw on turkey drumsticks...
...Carter can build a public groundswell for Stage 2, labor and business, for all their misgivings, may feel forced to observe the guidelines, and if the wage-price spiral can be slowed, the Government will get more time to chop away at the budget deficit. But even if a socko TV speech gets the program off to a good start, the President will face the tough task of maintaining public, labor and business confidence -and imposing unpleasantly stringent spending discipline on his own Administration-for what at best will be a long, long haul...
...oneself while shaving and concentrating on unpaid bills. T.S. Eliot broke his block by writing poems in French. (Dabbling in lesser languages removes pressure to perform in mother tongue.) Tom Wolfe, to tally blocked on his first famous article, a story about customized cars for Esquire, wrote a really socko memorandum to his editor on the subject. The editor ran the memo as the article. Wolfe now writes all his articles as memos. (On the other hand he is at least three years late with his current book...