Word: tended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cagers have less than a day to tend to their wounds. Brown storms into Briggs to night...
...symbolic scenes are generally purely so, with no link to existence within the major plot. Action and dialogue on the surface tend to seem pedantic, existing for thematic purpose alone and turning the film into a nihilist morality play. When Mauro has to interrogate Giovanni, a young man who is suspected of having convinced a former mistress to jump out of a window, the legal paraphernalia inevitably gives way to philosophical probing. "Why was I born?". "What is the meaning of life?" Obsessed with such questions, Mauro begins to ponder convincing Marta to commit suicide. The acquaintance with the young...
...went through the angst of being a rookie again. He had been recruited by the Eastman Philharmonia to read selected passages from the speeches of Martin Luther King to a new score written with Stargell in mind by Composer Joseph Schwantner, 39. "When you play Carnegie Hall, the knees tend to knock," said Stargell. But last week he gave a great performance in a career marked by great performances. For the old ballplayer, his debut was one from the heart. "Once, I remember we went to a drive-in movie, and the blacks had to sit in the back...
...coverage as underprepared and thin. Says one reporter: "Their biggest problem is that network correspondents cannot say, 'I do not know what this development means.' They should learn that they do not have to take the conventional interpretation as fact." A related complaint is that TV reporters tend to overemphasize the significance of a single statistic, like one month's index of leading economic indicators, or an unrepresentative situation, like the unemployment rate in Youngstown, Ohio. Perhaps in part out of professional rivalry, print reporters also claim that their TV colleagues rarely break new ground. Says...
...smallest transistor. These were quickly followed by books of software programs, like the popular BASIC Computer Games (Workman; $7.95), which provide page after page of prewritten computer codes that the reader can copy and run on his own machine. Now, as the domain of computer buyers expands, the bestsellers tend to be either step-by-step guides for new users, usually geared to specific machines, or introductory texts like McWilliams', which are intended for the computer illiterati who have not yet bought a machine. The author claims a special distinction for his efforts. "Mine," he says, "are the only...