Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ACADEMIA SPREADS its clutches far and wide. The academic industry gets bigger and bigger, and people lose their jobs if they don't publish. Every field becomes fair prey for new books. But the academic jargon doesn't fit everything--there's something especially out of place in the sort of analytic attention which Maurice Yacowar gives to Woody Allen in his new book, Loser Takes All: The Comic Art of Woody Allen. The cult of Woody Allen would be inexplicable if he didn't touch on some particular mood special to his times--the anxious defeated mood...
...like a mimosa. But the tropical Leucaena leucocephala is a bit different from other trees: in tropical climates it grows as high as 65 ft. in five years. That makes it a prime candidate for reforestation projects in overlumbered and wood-short Third World countries. The tree is also sort of a botanical schmoo;* undemanding itself, it provides a bountiful array of foods and fuels...
...here involved with a pair of noble decadents. Terence Stamp plays the one who begins his affair with her imagining it will be yet another bored dalli ance of the sort in which he specializes...
...gavotte these three dance is a glum one, too stately in pace. Offstage, there are rumbles of Fascism's approach, and doubtless the message is that private preoccupations of the sort described here made Mussolini's triumph easy. But Director Griffi is more interested in art deco interiors than he is in that or any other theme. The result is an irritating and so porific film. Those in need of an Antonelli fix are advised to see Till Marriage Do Us Part a second time - at least it's funny about decadence...
That's the sort of perverse passion that motivates Deborah Davis's Katherine the Great. While other authors have at least waited until their respective targets were safely settled in their graves before knocking them off their pedestals, Davis spares no such restraint in her heedless rush to profit from the "sins" of Washington Post publisher Katherine Graham. Forget the tales about Graham risking the family newspaper to take on the house that Nixon built. From Davis's perspective, Watergate stemmed not from the dictates of journalistic integrity but from the arrogance of a woman piqued by a presidential spurning...