Word: strains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...something more conventional in mind. Fed up, he finally deserts Red and becomes a main attraction at the "big shows" like Pendleton and Odessa. Called "Killer" because he rides the horses way past the sound of the buzzer until they finally drop dead from the strain, Tom takes out all his rage and self-contempt in the saddle...
Though campaign funds come from everywhere, Washington is the central point of accounting-or non-accounting. There the sensitive, secretive nature of political financing in this election year puts a strain on journalistic patience, stamina-and eyes. "You feel like a dentist touching a raw nerve," says Correspondent Hays Gorey. "One Republican source and friend, hearing the proposed topic for an interview, said, Tm going to hang up now.' I promised not to mention the Watergate, and he gave me two minutes." Corey's colleague, Simmons Fentress, found the McGovern people more willing to talk about the delicate...
...damages, argued that the mass arrests were justified by an emergency situation, but Judge Gesell declared: "The constitutional protections that are available to citizens of this country are protections which must be zealously safeguarded, and the appropriate time to safeguard them particularly is in times of stress and strain...
...Barth's career. A collection of highly experimental stories, the volume was subtitled "Fiction for Print. Tape, Live Voice," and was originally scheduled for publication accompanied by tapes. Packaging prohibited it, and this certainly kept Barth's effort from full realization. In any case, among some disappointments, two strains of experimentation stand out. The first is a movement (in stories like Glossolaha or Two Meditations) toward the elimination of plot and character altogether leaving only words in sequence language to sound and rhythm. But this reaches something of dead end, and Barth has not returned to it since. The second...
...college professors and students, and most everyone else. But unlike most people, columnists have to convince thousands of readers whom they have never met and over whom they exert no real power, that they are worth listening to. Maintaining this posture of authority and importance is often quite a strain, and produces such unusual prose as Jack Anderson's political lexicon of tzars, bosses, hitmen, and the like...