Word: stridently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was a touch of Teutonic pomp, but the circumstances were markedly different from those of 1936. The colors were cool, breezy pastels, not the strident Nazi red and black; it was Willy Brandt's gemütlich Munich, not Hitler's dark Berlin. With a fanfare of Alpine horns and a gaudy parade of 12,000 athletes from 124 nations, the XX Olympiad opened last week in an 80,000-capacity, acrylic, glass-covered stadium that stands on the site where Neville Chamberlain landed in 1938 to establish "peace in our time...
...political life. Considered the favorite in 1960, he lost to John Kennedy and two years later was even rejected for Governor by California voters. Starting far ahead, he let Hubert Humphrey nearly overtake him in 1968, and suffered a setback in the 1970 congressional elections because of an unduly strident campaign. Not much more than a year ago it looked as if he might become the first incumbent President since Herbert Hoover to be turned out of office. But now, for the first time in his scar-studded career, he bestrides the American political arena like a colossus. By every...
...nincompoops. Stephen Benson's Norman isn't comically awkward, just awkward; to be interested in him at all as a character we'd have to see his writing, and Benson can't move well enough to compensate the playwright's thinness. Worst of all is Caria Berg's strident Sophie Rauschmeier, with a banshee voice and a great stone face that moves in clicned exaggerations when it does move...
...anyone deserved the credit for launching Muskie as the presidential front runner, he did. A TV producer who worked for the Humphrey campaign in 1968, he staged the 1970 election-eve TV appearance in which Muskie clobbered Nixon in the image ratings. After viewers got a glimpse of the strident, gesticulating President, they were soothed by the sight of Muskie calmly sitting in a home in Maine. While the fire crackled in the background, he made a plea for reasonableness in fatherly tones. All that was lacking in the scene was a St. Bernard licking the candidate's hand...
...logical place for a convocation of strangers who are terrorized yet basically humane. In the world's judgment, the characters in Small Craft Warnings are seedy derelicts: a strident middle-aged beautician (Helena Carroll) who rarely bathes and whose trailer shack-up is a monosyllabic semi-Neanderthal (Brad Sullivan); a red-headed hooker (Cherry Davis) whose hand is on every man's groin except that of her woefully plastered boy friend (William Hickey); a drunken doctor (David Hooks) who kills when he aborts and a sardonically nihilistic homosexual (Alan Mixon). The world casts stones; Williams applies the balm...