Word: teeth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about the efforts of elderly parents to prepare a middleaged, retarded son for life without them. The first views of Philly, as 52-year-old Philip is called, show a stocky, dull-faced man with an unshaven jaw, thick lips and a gap in his mouth where several front teeth are missing. His speech-grunted single words, short sentences that do little better than repeat what has just been said to him -makes it clear that his intelligence is severely limited. The last look shows the same coarse face, behind which lives the same crippled mind...
...actors are assembled from a broad pool. One man is a superintendent of a Bronx apartment house; one voice that sings "Reach out" belongs to Phoebe Snow; there is a kid much in demand because he had his front teeth extracted when he was 2½. There is also a serious actress: "I won't do those brutal pesticides that poison the environment, and I won't do douches ... You might say that my standards are basically political...
...environment. With the initial building stages of the Department of Education well under way and seemingly in control, Hufstedler has already come a long way from the babe-in-the-wooods stage that many predicted she might languish in for the balance of her career. The bureaucractic teeth Hufstedler has pulled thus far, as she readily admits, are just the beginnings of the business of being a Cabinet secretary. With any luck and agood deal of support from below, Hufstedler may defy the experts and the critics and be the outsider that makes the insiders listen and the federal bureaucracy...
...divorce: the exwife, dressed to kill, encases her maddened curiosity in a ladylike frost. She notices things brutally, and repeats them when she gets home. Mrs. Frances Trollope reported back to England in 1832 that Americans gorge their food with "voracious rapidity"; they swill, guzzle, spit and pick their teeth with pocket knives. In Cincinnati, she related, cows are nonchalantly milked at the house door (a predecessor, no doubt, of the great American custom of home delivery), and pigs enjoy such citizenship that they wander at will, rooting in the street garbage and nuzzling pedestrians with their moist snouts. Americans...
...same time, this display of fiscal firmness is failing to impress its intended audience. The program's goal is to prove to the business world that Carter is man enough to grit his teeth and make the helpless bite the bullet--thereby reversing self-fulfilling inflationary expectations. But the consensus on Wall Street is that not enough old people will freeze, too few children will go hungry and, in short, stricter discipline is necessary...