Word: soundness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MONTY PYTHON'S BRAND of humor always seemed peculiarly suited to the ear, not the eye. The ridiculous inflections of the members' voices, the bizarre intellectual and literary allusions, the often crude, even downright scatological sounds captured on record--all these ingredients first sold me on Monty Python several years ago. Indeed, I credit the comedy troupe's Monty Python's Previous Record with having taught me the true, wrenched-gut meaning of a guffaw. The divine mission to convert friends to the joys of these whacked-out Britons soon followed this revelation; I had heard the true sound...
...unions, talk that way. Though this observer voted for Jimmy Carter over Jerry Brown in the 1976 California Democratic primary, this sort of language compels one who regards oneself as a liberal to think about trying to find a new man. To be sure, Carter's appointments have been sound from the liberal perspective. The names of Joseph Califano at HEW, Michael Pertschuk at FTC, and Andrew Young at the U.N. immediately come to mind. But it is policy, not appointments, which shapes the course of nations. The Democratic Party has not traditionally accepted a defeatist philosophy of government...
Meanwhile, a tanker yesterday reported taking on water in Salem Sound, 20 miles north of Boston. The tanker is carrying 3500 barrels of oil, a spokesman for the Coast Guard said...
...finale that seems inspired by Who's Afraid of Vir ginia Woolf?, the film calls attention to all of Wertmuller's worst habits. Characters are forever letting loose with faddish and fatuous pronouncements about the connections between love and power. Loud music and pounding drums on the sound track accent the script's most histrionic moments...
...Scherrer last week. Perhaps so, but when fashion's big spenders came to view the couture collections for spring and sum mer, they were far from calm about what they saw. In the crowded showrooms of Paris last week, high-stepping models marched off the runways to the sound of ear-tingling applause and rustling checkbooks...