Word: soft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shot mostly on location in Boston, confidently supplies the answer. He is Albert DeSalvo,* a lumpish schizophrene with a wife and two kids. Most of the time DeSalvo (Tony Curtis) is a brooding but law-abiding mechanic. But there are moments when he turns into another self, a compulsive, soft-spoken psychopath who can kill at the drop of a door latch...
Later O'Connor, speaking with a soft Southern accent, requested students to use the peace sign for opposition to the war in general, but to display a clenched fist when referring to the draft, because "it is the sign of Resistance." "I love you all," he said to the crowd, as tears ran down his face...
...There's an element of deathwatch in this campaign that's never been there before," said an enormously fat newspaperman from New York. A thin, soft-spoken reporter from a Boston paper joined in. "That's just it," he said. "You don't want not to be there when he gets shot...
...GOVERNMENT HELP. Next to business training, what Negro entrepreneurs need most is credit. The easiest source for it is the Small Business Administration. Since 1965, the S.B.A. has made or guaranteed more than 8,000 soft loans, totaling $82 million, to would-be businessmen-about a third of them Negroes-with incomes below the poverty line. Unfortunately, the effort to make instant entrepreneurs of the poor proved disastrous. Default rates soared, and the S.B.A. concedes that a majority of the firms are in trouble...
There are wonderful drawings of all kinds in this show. The Degas chalk landscapes are very unusual--ephemeral, misty, and soft. Six Boucher studies are included, among them a wonderful study of hands, and a head by Bernini and one by Watteau. Contemporary drawings by Giacomo Porzano ("Man with a Cigarette") and Walt Kuhn ("Study for the painting 'Roberto'") are very stark and striking...