Word: soft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presidential jet took off at 7:30. Sadat traveled in his own compartment, a tastefully decorated section furnished with swivel chairs, two soft corner couches, a TV set and an electronics board that flashed the altitude, speed, time and weather. On the walls were satellite photographs of Egypt, including one of the Sinai Peninsula. On the desk was a vase of yellow flowers...
Instead of issuing editorial commands from headquarters, today's chains practice something called "local editorial autonomy," a soft-shoe phrase that can cover a lot of omissions. Now that more than 95% of American communities are without competing papers, a monopoly paper can be as much of a gold mine as a TV station. On chain papers, editors and publishers brought in from the outside and just passing through in their careers are often anxious not to rock the boat locally. Some have about as much feeling for a community's sense of itself and its needs...
...movie is your basic "boy meets girl" film cut from the Love Story mold and based on a fairly respectable short story that first appeared in the New Yorker. The movie panders to the millions of soft-hearted Americans who thronged to The Way We Were and will throng to Oliver's Story. Nevertheless, a fairly realistic, sobering message about the inherent disillusionment in first loves manages--barely--to emerge. If you can sit through the movie without sliding out of your seat in fits of hysterics, then you may even gain a few insights that will serve...
Unfortunately, the cinematography does not improve with the acting. Darling, who is accustomed to television, rarely experiments with interesting angles, and this adds to the film's blandness. In some scenes, the camera is filtered to produce a soft, hazy ambience in an attempt to accentuate the romantic elements. The effort instead pushes the movie further into the realm of unreality...
While Moore and most of the other fighters in Shadow Box are black, no one will mistake Plimpton for a Great White Hope. Rather he calls to mind the role Beau Bridges played in the early '70s film The Landlord: a rich, soft, and well-intentioned white boy mixing it up with blacks from the ghetto--emerging unscathed by some miracle, but not unchanged...