Word: thawed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paid. Brooks and his wife decided that they had to seek help, and he went to the welfare office. "We got some papers in the mail," he recalls, "and it bothered me so bad I got my wife to fill 'em out." He still hopes a thaw, in both the frozen woods and the demand for logs, will let him regain his pride and independence. In the meantime there is only welfare...
...coolness" became emblematic of national life. Jack and Jackie Kennedy caused a brief romantic thaw in 1960, but assassination glazed open displays of feelings. In the middle and latter '60s, romanticism became "camp." Old movies were appreciated because the emotion was behind glass, and confined to a 20-inch screen. On that scale, a kid could safely dig Bogart's telling Sam to play As Time Goes By without being accused of emotionalism. Sentiment, no matter how florid, was permissible if it was ancient: westerns, turn-of-the-century valentines, revivals of theater period pieces like The Front Page...
Ebenezer Scrooge, according to Dickens, "carried his own low temperature about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas." Albert Finney, as Scrooge, knows how to act cold, and he knows how to sound cold. His performance is really remarkable, though after all he has dialogue that even Mister Magoo can make effective. The problems with his Scrooge are not exactly his fault: in the first place he doesn't look like Scrooge. I've always pictured Scrooge as a shriveled up old man with small beady eyes...
...Horizon History of Russia by the editors of Horizon Magazine. Text by Ian Grey. 404 pages. American Heritage. $22. Russia's first thaw occurred about 15,000 years ago when the Ice Age came to a close. South of the Arctic Circle, evergreens spread from Finland to the Bering Sea. A great network of rivers, including the Don, began flowing quietly and otherwise; the steppe rolled out from the Carpathians to Mongolia; the semi-deserts of Central Asia pillowed to the south. Into this immensity came Goths, Slavs, Vikings and Tatars, mixing their blood on battlefields and in bedrooms...
...Inter Ice Age 4, sophisticated computers concur in predicting that "the future would see a Communist society" throughout the world. At the same time, however, the polar icecaps have begun to thaw, threatening another age of glaciers. How then will an earthbound and capitalistic society survive? Abe sets up a group of underworldly scientists who aim, through biological mutation, to turn men into aquatic animals. These new creatures will live on underwater continents, safe from the looming ice age and the global Communist takeover. Ingenious, but even if it meant nothing less than the survival of capitalism, would you rather...