Word: solemn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PERHAPS IT IS this hesitancy to generalize, to offer weighty and solemn judgments, that makes Didion's writing so evocative. Instead of pronouncements, she offers reportage. She focuses on an incident and notes every detail in uncluttered, harsh prose. Didion also has the reporter's curiosity about how things work. She investigates how orchids are tended, how freeways are monitored, how lifeguards live, how dams work, the philosophy and history of shopping malls. She is always honest in her examination of a setting or person. She damns through accuracy, not forceful moral argument. In "Bureaucrats," for example, she perfectly captures...
Carter's journey to the Far East will be his first as U.S. President; he has visited the area occasionally before, stopping briefly in Japan, while campaigning for the presidency in 1975 for instance. Solemn ceremonies and other red carpet activities-including an audience with Emperor Hirohito and an inspection of Western defenses in South Korea-should help reinforce relations with two of Washington's most valued Pacific allies. The Tokyo economic summit, however-the fifth such meeting of leaders of the largest industrial democracies*-is shaping up as a complex political obstacle course that is sure...
Rocky II is the most solemn example of self-deification by a movie star since Barbra Streisand's A Star Is Born. Though ostensibly the story of Rocky's marriage to mousy Adrian (Talia Shire) and his rematch with World Heavyweight Champ Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers), the film is not overly concerned with matters of romance or pugilism. The pivotal scenes all illustrate, in picture-book fashion, the hero's saintliness. We learn that Rocky loves animals: "I love animals," he announces early on, and then proceeds to devote a sizable amount of screen time...
...Blow-dry hair stylings on anchormen for local television news shows are solemn. Henry James is serious...
...Falling in love, getting married, having children, getting divorced and fighting over who gets ... the car and the Wedgwood are all serious. The new sexual freedom is solemn...