Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...woman's journey toward a sensual awakening, but Alvarez's small repertoire of narrative gestures is inadequate to create an interesting, surface, let alone psychological depth. Julie is a "waiflike" creature whose husband, despite his stuffiness, manages to have a sensuality "as massive and crushing as a Centurion tank." As the story begins, she is tolerating a routine of more-or-less intermittent rape; soon she is submitting a bit more cheerfully to one of her husband's students, Sam; by the end of the book she has left both of them in favor of a muscular blond Teuton...
...going. He shoots a misty morning in Los Angeles like it's underwater, and the footage of the Florida Keys evokes the muggy, going-nowhere feeling of that place. People swim in this movie, too slippery and illogical for Moseby's chess game. One quick scene in the gigantic tank of a pro-football game is perfect--a dark walk through the tunnel into the bleary, intoxicating stadium--the roar and immensity give Moseby's quest all the more futility...
...From the Hon. and Mrs. Standish Bradford through the Davenports, the Hallowells, the Peabodys and Saltonstalls, to the pride and joy of Hamilton, General George S. Patton, son of Gen. Blood and Guts Patton himself. Hamilton even has a Patton Park or some such memorial complete with a bronze tank...
...planning we did," Spielberg recalls, "nobody thought much about the currents or anything at all about the waves." A strong current would cause equipment boats to drift away. Water color would change, the rhythm of the waves would fluctuate. "I could have shot the movie in the tank," Spielberg says, "or even in a protected lake somewhere, but it would not have looked the same...
Coleman's latest study, sponsored by the Urban Institute, a Washington, D.C., think tank, analyzed racial data and trends in U.S. public schools from 1968 to 1973. When only small numbers of well-behaved, well-scrubbed black children were involved in busing, Coleman says, white parents did not resist too much. Indeed, busing has continued to work well in some smaller school systems. But when busing began to involve large numbers of low-income blacks from big-city ghettos, whites started to move away. Apparently confirming what opponents of forced busing have maintained all along, Coleman says: "Busing does...