Word: temperedness
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Waldo Pepper is a flamboyant movie, eminently satisfying just as a spectacle. What transforms it into something more is the authenticity that Director Hill, whose avocation is flying antique airplanes, brings to it. He is obviously paying tribute to a spirit of gallantry that he believes in and admires. Fortunately...
Persona Grata. As usual, there were suggestions of CIA involvement. General Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, 37, the hot-tempered head of COPCON, the military security command, indirectly implicated American Ambassador Frank Carlucci in the plot and warned him that he "had better leave." Washington denied any involvement, however, and calmer...
KAWABATA delighted in reflections. At the beginning of Snow Country, a man on a train is astonished by the sudden image of a woman's face in the window beside him; the "other worldly power" of this symbol recurs numerous times in this short novel, evoking a poignant sense of...
The fun is often tempered by injuries as youngsters try to copy the more muscular pros. The A.H.A.U.S. keeps no statistics but for most youngsters the most common wounds are gashes that require sutures. Less common but more painful are the broken noses when unskilled kids bang headfirst into the...
The starling is not the only alien species that plagues the nation. There are European pigeons, which spread a form of meningitis and defile monuments and building ledges and the German carp, a "wonderfish" imported in the 1870s, which has displaced native game fish from lakes and rivers by eating...