Word: sours
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since 1974, when a military coup ended more than 40 years of fascist dictatorship, Portugal has experimented with Communism and socialism-and seen the sweet promises of revolution turn sour along with an ever more depressed economy. Last week "reformism," a freshly coined label on Lisbon's political scene, got its turn. The newly named government of Premier Carlos Alberto Mota Pinto defeated a Communist bid to deny it a vote of confidence, and thereby established itself as the fourth constitutional regime Portugal has had in three years...
...sour grapes, since when I came to Columbia I knew they wouldn't have that type of commitment--but I thought if I turned it around they would make the commitment." Penders did turn it around, but he still had to do most of the scouting and recruiting himself, with both of his assistant coaches having to teach Phys Ed classes. Only one secretary served the basketball office, along with seven other sports offices. "We'd get a letter out once a week," grins Penders. "I kind of felt we were doing it out of a brown...
...miniature, jewel-like detail and an almost translucent texture that is best appreciated in smaller concert halls. But its simple air is deceptive: chamber music is murderously difficult to play well. If a performer is too flamboyant, he upends the others. If one violin is off pitch, all instruments sour. Each line is naked, each player dependent on the others to "breathe" together, in order to get the right pitch, intonation and rhythm...
Four plays and five yards later, Lynch connected for the winning field goal, but a paragraph before, our story went sour. Bob McDermott was killed in a tragic fire last summer. Another teammate, Andy Puopolo, died a month after he was fatally injured in a November '76 Combat Zone knifing incident...
...ninety-year-old french fry"), and a pair of good-ole-boy screenwriters from Texas provide boisterous comic relief. McMurtry, who knows the Hollywood milieu firsthand, reveals a nice sense of place and trade. The celluloid scene has been done before; what McMurtry gives it-as he gave that sour Texas town in his The Last Picture Show-is a sense that even the meanest lives deserve a measure of compassion...