Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your cover painting caught the lady's spirit, iron will and plain old-fashioned spunk! O, that we had a lady like her here to run circles around Jimmy Carter...
...project a vision larger than the problem he is tackling at the moment." Carter's aides, Fallows says in his second article, have fallen prey to the bureaucratic system that they once vowed to reform. He writes: "Run like a bureaucracy, the White House took on the spirit of a bureaucracy, drained of zeal, obsessed with form, full of people attracted [more] by the side-dressings of their work than the work itself...
...journalist but a very well connected middleman. His entrepreneurial activities have included attempting to stage a pirated Soviet production of the musical My Fair Lady in 1959, trying to sell Western publishers an unauthorized version of the memoirs of Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva, and possibly helping to spirit out of Russia the tapes and manuscripts for Khrushchev Remembers. Louis' luxurious dacha, complete with sauna, clay tennis court and thermostatic wine cellar, suggests a more generous source of income than journalism. Yet Louis heatedly denies any KGB connection and last week professed dismay at the Salisbury introduction...
...redeem her? At play's end it is too early to tell. But it is not too early to know that Susan Kingsley is giving one of the memorable performances of the season. Her Arlene is more than brilliant acting; it is a revelation of the human spirit in extremis. Pamela Reed's Arlie has a stinging honesty that stems, in part, from never prettifying a particularly loathsome brat. Getting Out, Marsha Norman's first play, was initially staged at Jon Jory's Actors Theater of Louisville, and had a brief run at Marymount Manhattan...
...there to be mined, and no one else is permitted to explode emotionally either. The result is a film without drive, lilt or vision. Portrait is an academic reading of a classic, faithful in its way to the overall structure of the original, but entirely lacking in the spirit that makes it live...