Word: sours
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Meat Alone" (Dec. 19, by Seth Kupferberg): Why is it that what The Crimson serves up in the way of political analysis always smacks of sour grapes? The taste is annoying, especially to one who finds himself agreeing with the politics but not the petulance...
Fearful Crime. The Wilder-Diamond adaptation consists mostly of frequent, unfortunate embellishments. Wilder and Diamond conjure up, for instance, an Oriental cathouse that is never seen but frequently talked about, generally with such references as "I sure could use a little of that sweet and sour right now." They also create a sequence hi which Burns visits Hildy's fiancee (played with popeyed persistence by Susan Sarandon) and passes himself off as Johnson's probation officer. This kicks off a scene of lengthy anxiety about Hildy's fearful (but imaginary) crime, which turns out to be flashing...
...deadline for taking advantage of Ford's offer is Jan. 31, 1975. As mat ters now stand, his compromise solution to the problem of granting amnesty seems bound to end with the same sense of sour failure that marked so much of the long war in Viet...
...cleverly disguised its real meaning. According to the protocol, the EEC will "create a correcting mechanism that could prevent during the period of convergence of the economies of the member states the possible development of situations unacceptable for a member state." Translation: if a country's economy goes sour, its budget contribution may be reduced. That ambiguous phraseology protected delicate French sensibilities but, at the same time, allowed the British press to claim a famous victory...
...oppose. But since the labels people give themselves are generally less important than their backgrounds, it's not too surprising that one wing of affirmative action's supporters--the rich and fashionably frivolous liberals who form, say, the basic readership of New York magazine--have already begun to sour on it, as journalists assure them that labor will never stand for it and the economy starts to limit the opportunities they've counted...