Word: sours
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bumper Sticker. Last week's performance left a sour and uneasy feeling among many Congressmen and others who had been profoundly moved by the previous week's protests by dissident Viet Nam veterans. "The vets left a really strong and favorable impression," said an aide to one of the Senate's most outspoken doves. "But these kids are destroying it." One group that appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee reduced Vermont Senator George Aiken, a persistent war critic, to sounding like a right-wing bumper sticker. Advising them that there was no law against leaving...
...Sparkish, Christopher Harding speaks in a falsetto and moves with a flourish which fully exploit the affectations of his role. He offers an excellent contrast to Pinchwife, played by Richard Minturn, who makes his face a sour, frowning mask that states his personality. Pinchwife is as overly protective of his wife's honor as Sparkish is negligent of Alithea's. Keeping his country wife under lock and key. Pinchwife confidently declares, "I understand the town." The audience takes enormous delight when the young, inexperienced Margery defeats the old coot, who thinks himself so wise...
While these sour truths seep in, the old Follies girls (De Carlo, Fifi d'Orsay, Mary McCarty) do their thing. Ethel Shutta siphons pure delight out of a number called Broadway Baby and reminds us, as do the others, of how much more verve, authority and presence the older stage professionals possessed than do many of their flaccid present-day counterparts. A campy show might have mocked the old stars, but Follies shows an un-American respect for age by honoring their skill, valiance and tenacity...
...mortar batteries, rockets, antiaircraft guns and heavy 152-mm. howitzers with an elevenmile range. The buildup-biggest in the DMZ since the 1968 bombing halt-might have been a reaction to allied hints that an invasion of North Viet Nam might be attempted if Lam Son were to turn sour. But some U.S. officers, fearful that it foreshadowed a period of relentless Communist shelling and possibly a fullblown invasion, rushed 7,000 additional American troops to the area. At week's end there were 20,000 ARVN and 15,000 U.S. troops just below...
Star-Schlock. Rosewater feels the same way when he is sober, although he finds it necessary to note that most science-fiction writers can't write "for sour apples...