Word: sours
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after the physical woes began to show up as losses, the attitude of the team became divisive. Players who hustled only to see their efforts negated by teammates' sloppiness became embittered. Players who were on the ice only for themselves dismissed that bitterness as sour grapes. And the two people connected with the quad who should have shaped up that attitude, Weiland and captain Chris Gurry, either did not or could not do anything about it. Cavanagh will do something about it if it happens again next year...
Diamond, who had had the misfortune of covering one of the worst Yale teams in over 20 years, was hardly in a hurry. His date wanted another rye and ginger, mine wanted another whiskey sour, and I wanted to stay away from Boston Garden and the ECAC playoff consolation round as long as possible...
...creation, which turns three couples loose to the overture of Rossini's Semiramide. Arpino's brilliant passages of dance invention and his dancers' great innovative skills leave the music behind. The ballet becomes a mere gymnastic feat. Solarwind is different-not a confection gone slickly sour but a modish sci-fi convention pursued without rhyme or reason. In a cosmic mood, Arpino sends his dancers blasting around the stage to assorted flatulent noises-pings, creaks and suckings. The score, by Avant-Garde Composer Jacob Druckman, is entitled Animus III for Tape and Clarinet...
Sometimes such reactions are born of sour experience; often, however, they simply reflect envy of Japan's drive and organization. Mitsui, a top Japanese trading company, "is better at information gathering than the CIA," swears one Singapore government official. "They send in 20 men to look at an investment. They read everything and they take down everything-even the jokes cracked at meetings." Japanese firms are famous for absorbing absurd losses just to get a piece of a market-which is why Toyota has 25% of the Philippine auto business...
...Sour cream wouldn't melt in Jacobi's mouth, and his face looks like a bowl of stale potato salad. But he wears his troubles like epaulettes, and has he got troubles. He is the owner of a Midwest dry-cleaning establishment, and his wife has just run off with his partner who happens to be his brother. Seeking solace from his New York bachelor son Norman (Martin Huston), Jacobi arrives unannounced (if anything Jacobi does can properly be called unannounced) and finds the boy nonchalantly involved in a homosexual liaison with a friend named Garson (Walter Willison...