Word: tempts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MERCURY climbs into the nineties and the percentage of relative humidity follows closely behind, sunbathing quickly loses its charms. In both Boston and Cambridge, theaters offer wonderfully air-conditioned alternatives to Charles Bank Beach, and under some circumstances, even another showing of Shampoo at the Harvard Square will tempt the heat stricken. Luckily, for those who refuse to sacrifice quality for comfort, the Harvard Radcliffe, Summer Theater exists. Its current production of Henrik Ibsen's The Pillars of Society rapidly captivates and carries sweltering. Cantabrigians to where the heat arises from social pressure, and the sweat from fear...
...producers of Annie have engineered a powerful media blitz to herald their lavish if lead-souled musical. Tron, a futuristic melodrama set inside a video game, hopes to lure the addicts of the arcades back to moviehouses. New versions of Rocky, Grease, Star Trek and The Thing will tempt old adherents. The Road Warrior and Blade Runner will offer up eye-catching punk-rock apocalypses. Robin Williams will attempt to enter The World According to Garp. Clint Eastwood and Woody Allen have new movies, and Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton will sing and dance their way through The Best Little...
...SPEECH In the lexicon of American political jargon, perhaps no two words are as revered. Certainly more are as immune from harm, those who succeed in choking their unpopular stands in the mantle of free speech invevitably appear heroic dissidents, defined by their willingness to challenge the accepted and tempt the wrath of contemptuous majorities...
...TONING-DOWN she maintains a respectful distance from even her own creative process, politely refraining from anything resembling a psychological poke around. Engaged in a sixth novel, she notes first that her publishers won't "allow" her to discuss it, then adds. "I don't want to tempt the gods...
This glimpse is what Singer's stories constantly offer. To catch it, his readers are not required to believe in demonology but merely to agree that much of life is otherwise inexplicable. Why would a devout Jewish husband tempt his beautiful new bride into adultery with a loutish footman? What could prompt a spirited girl to masquerade as a yeshiva boy and then marry a village's most eligible heiress? In The Cabalist of East Broadway, a morose old Hebrew scholar suddenly abandons New York City for a young wife and fame in Israel. Just as suddenly...