Word: suggest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little lady. He's not. He's a middle-aged shlemiel of an accountant-a surly, sulky Bob Newhart-with a restless young wife and a fatal case of paranoia. Lillian (Deborah Harry) thinks she's Betty Bacall: purple nightgowns, lots of makeup and suggestive patter, gentleman friend on the side. She's not. She's a housewife who cannot keep house, and whose only escape from her drab apartment is a weekly movie matinee with the superintendent (Everett McGill). O.K., her Mongol cheekbones do suggest a touch of fashion-model class. True, the young...
...ordinary people, as ordinary as real people could be, and their problems are ordinary. They are, as I said, depressed, which seems to be the most ordinary thing in the world. After all, who isn't? Some might argue that this is the problem with the movie--ordinary problems suggest little intrinsic interest. By contrast, Taxi Driver's Travis Bickle is, to all appearances, ordinary--a cabbie who falls in love with a campaign worker--but he is intrinsically interesting because he is psychotic, and of dark aspect, and when the camera rolls the heads start to roll, too. Still...
While some athletes today have trouble distinguishing themselves from movie stars, Cowens was a welcome relief from self-promoting impressarios-cum-jocks. In that now infamous Inside Sports profile, some of the Los Angeles Dodgers went so far as to suggest that the purpose of Steve Garvey's inimitable arms-bent-at elbows running style was to prevent his uniform from becoming wrinkled. Pete Rose is known as "Charlie Hustle," but the pervasive sentiment that that hustle is manufactured makes him one of the most hated players in baseball in enemy arenas...
...boot. By making these 200 stories accessible to the general reader, Calvino, 56, has considerably enriched the world's supply of a seriously depleted commodity, oral history. Tales passed on through the centuries by word of mouth tell much more than their plots. In their diversity, they suggest the variety of dreams, the possible mutations of consciousness and climates. Their frequent similarities point teasingly in the opposite direction, toward some Ur tale that generated all the others, a narrative vast and potent enough to enclose the world. Writes Calvino: "Taken all together, they offer, in their oft-repeated...
...pack, most notably helping care for other wolves' pups, in what Fox calls "a time of apprenticeship and service to their society." In any pack, however, unless its ranks have been seriously depleted, only one female each year gives birth to a litter. Even more notable, some studies suggest, the alpha male (or executive wolf), who makes all pack decisions and conducts the hunt, tends not to breed-perhaps because it would distract him from command. Says Fox primly: Man needs to "emulate the wolf ... in exercising greater dominion over sexuality and incredible reproductive potential...