Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...office appeal of a blockbuster best seller. The charisma of Marlon Brando in one of his finest performances. Warmth, violence, nostalgia and the dynastic sweep of an Italian-American Gone With the Wind. The Godfather, which will be released next week, is a movie that seems to have everything. Canny producers know that when a movie has everything, it needs something more: a sequel. What could the brains at Paramount come up with to match The Godfather? Something to do with the Mafia, something rife with greed, intrigue and passion. For that, they might consider The Making of the Godfather...
...years - years that have seen football all but replace baseball as the No. 1 national sport. The change says a lot, because the difference between the two games is crucial. Baseball is a noble, romantic game that spurns time by expanding into extra innings. Football, with a sweep-second hand constantly at one's throat, is too much like real life. ·R.Z. Sheppard
...geography. It is a passionate, varied land, strongly suggestive, capable of forcing a man to a course of action he might never have realized alone. So with the hoards of disappointed. Some stumbled into a rough port surging up and down hills overlooking a beautiful bay. The tranquil sweep of water had a civilizing effect, and in the aftermath of earthquake, the community drew solidly together: out of the wreckage of the Barbary Coast grew a city sophisticated by disaster, as elegant and corrupt as the lost metropolises of the East. Others, wandering into the rich central valleys just...
...January 1972 arrests were the second wave of arrests to sweep the Ukraine. In 1965, 30 Ukrainian intellectuals were secretly arrested...
ELIOT and his followers thus made the mistake of refining themselves clear out of our common sensibility. This was an across the board sweep affecting all the arts. Eliot and Pound, along with Robert Lowell and John Berryman, have as little to do with our basic experiences as I.M. Pei has to do with Route 66, Dickey holds up Theodore Roethke, the Michigan poet who celebrated the greenhouses and gardens of his early life with simple, crystalline language, as the kind of poet who can bring off the new poetic revolution against these oppressive forces. Roethke is a good start...