Word: sported
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...words can. Though Matson describes himself as "a farmer and a writer," he has the eye of a cinematographer--and like his subjects, evidently, the energy of an athlete. "When I'm photographing Pilobolus, I'm down on the floor or flipping, too--it's almost like a sport," he says...
...greater concern for credibility than for truth. He warns of creeping trivialization that downgrades history as nostalgia, and educators as socializers rather than conveyors of knowledge. Literature is trivialized by absurdists, emotions by promiscuity, and in the locker rooms of professional athletics, Lasch sniffs the odor of terminal degradation. Sport, once the arena of heroes and spiritual renewal, is now a stage for entertainers. The "dictum-'winning isn't the most important thing, it's the only thing,' " says Lasch, "represents a last-ditch defense of team spirit in the face of its deterioration...
...Walken), steel-mill workers from Clairton, Pa., who go off unquestioningly to fight for their country. In the film's first hour, set at home, Cimino presents his buddies sympathetically as average men with traditional values: their lives are defined by work, family, church and a love of sport. What happens subsequently to Michael and Nick in Viet Nam is a paradigm of what happened...
Perhaps Cimino's boldest move is the use of Russian roulette as a recurrent image. The game that we first see as a Viet Cong torture later shows up as a sport conducted by wagering South Vietnamese in smoky Saigon back rooms. Besides serving as an expressionistic picture of the capital's profiteers, the roulette game becomes a metaphor for a war that blurred the lines between bravery and cruelty, friends and enemies, sanity and madness. Unfortunately, other conceits in The Deer Hunter damage the film. A first-hour wedding ceremony, designed to establish the tribal rites...
...start running that shit, they aren't going to see my stuff in the magazine any longer," he said. But people who know how to be properly outraged are few and far between, and no doubt many will find themselves blindly agreeing that women could do well to sport a little more sex appeal...