Word: souring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This point, however obvious, is instrumental in establishing the commonalty of friendship. "Every relationship between two people starts going sour if one person is more successful than the other," says Psychologist Wright. "There has to be an import-export quality to friendship. One exports what the other needs and vice versa. When the balance of payments is disturbed, there is a falling...
...master pornographer. He sets up his tripod in his tenement apartment and plays a Peeping Tom game of Rear Window with the tenants of the massive co-op across the way. He even winds up marrying one of them (Jennifer Salt). By this time his film career has gone sour, his debut in radical theater has been a bust, and his new calling as "an urban guerrilla" seems threatened by the balm of matrimony and impending fatherhood...
...authors have been none too daring in providing an interpretive framework for these events. But their analysis, if conventional, seems to match what actually happened. All the standard components of a university eruption-society turning sour, kids getting fed up with the war. etc., radicals itching to kick good old Harvard in the shins-were there, the book says...
...plane or release the passengers. South Korean authorities called in machine gunners and military jets to prevent the plane from leaving. For the passengers, crowded six abreast in the plane, the impasse was hell. The men's hands were tied behind them with twine; the air became sour; toilets reached the overflow point. The skyjackers kept the doors shut and window shades drawn...
What is left is a kind of sour Love Story. Or a Graduate that leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth. Hal is no Dustin Hoffman, to be sure. He dumps cruelly on two girls who love him (Susan in Zurs and Emily in New York). His thoughts are too often too rich and too banal. (Experiences are frequently described as "nice" and "good.") He develops a minor drinking problem and it becomes a self-conscious preppie debauch...