Word: sours
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...momentarily weakens. He begins to think it might be nice to be a rhinoceros. It seems the thing to do. Stanley begins snorting, in a desperate attempt to turn into a beast. But he can not change, so his final assertion of individuality has both a heroic and a sour-grapes kind of defiance about...
...Chinese New Year, the Year of the Tiger. But there were very few tigers in evidence among the returning 431 Congressmen and 100 Senators. Their sojourn among the voters back home during the 29-day holiday recess exposed them to an American public that was angry, suspicious, impatient and sour, and one, moreover, that was sharply divided on how to solve the nation's problems. Energy shortages, exploding prices, dwindling jobs, all conspired to make 1974, for most legislators, loom as their Year of the Nervous Stomach...
...winter is well under way-and most homes are still warm, virtually all factories are still humming, and the popular mood is swinging mercurially from aggravated alarm to sour skepticism. The nation is being swept by rumors of tankers idling at sea to await higher prices before unloading, of refineries bulging with reserve stocks, of price-gouging from dock to gas pump. Forgetting how much their lives have already changed-who would have dared predict a year ago that 68° thermostat settings and gasless Sundays would so quickly become routine?-many Americans are asking not how the nation...
...marriage laws-most of the movie consists of flashbacks to the period be fore divorce became legal in Italy-but also marriage itself. The trouble with it, according to Germi, is mostly women. That is the trouble with the movie, too, in a way. It is constructed around a sour, myopic kind of misogyny, not quite deft or witty enough to cut through the un pleasant taste of bile...
...longtime heart ailment; in Los Angeles. A confessed student of the Sinatra style, Darin characteristically loosened his tie and snapped his fingers even when singing somber songs. In 1960 he married Sandra Dee, but by the middle of the decade both his marriage and his career were turning sour. A divorce and a new image gave him a boost, but he never achieved his outspoken ambition "to become a legend...