Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sissela Bok, Bok's wife, said last night the FBI had not told her of the recovery but said she thought the news was "wonderful." She declined further comment...
...best short novels ever written because its author, Alan Sillitoe, has the rare gift of capturing working class life in simple, unromanticized prose. It's the story of an English youth in a reform school who purposely loses a cross-country match to be honest; he thought it would be immoral to win the challenge cup merely to please a vain warden--head-master. Sillitoe combines a vivid picture of the routine of lower class life using the loneliness of cross-country running to cultivate his protagonist's spiritual development...
...producing a convoluted pattern that exceeds the limits of our credulity. Claude Chabrol has earned these conflicting reactions from his latest venture into the realm of the film noir, Dirty Hands, and his ultimate failure amounts to a minor tragedy. Seeing the 1976 release leaves you with the initial thought that Chabrol came so close to making a reasonably competent suspense thriller, only to blow it in the final minutes, when the money was really on the line. Ah, but these are charitable words, as further reflection demonstrates...
...tongue-in-cheek speech of the Oxford players is ubiquitous, even when talking to one another. A constant stream of jibes and dry remarks on a variety of topics is the norm. When asked what they thought of the people around Harvard, Bodgin replied, "Very pleasant." Reeve added his approval, saying, "Everyone seems to be neat and tidy." Crisp interjected, "What about that Buddhist fellow with the shaved head...
...quite figure out what The New Republic thought it was doing in publishing these pieces--they don't even have anything to do with Israel...