Word: trailingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the Soviets trail in cruise technology, Pentagon experts estimate that the Russians could catch up in about five years. Moreover, the cruise could not be used to launch a surprise attack; its leisurely subsonic speed (for extreme long range: 400 m.p.h.) gives plenty of warning that it is on its way. But the cruise is a powerful deterrent to a first-strike Soviet attack. Both cheap and mobile, cruises can be deployed in such massive numbers across the U.S., in planes and at sea that it would be impossible for the Soviets to destroy them all. The surviving cruises...
Curving with all of them cats on my trail...
...second act abandons the flashback except for a few isolated and effective moments, and it begins with Roosevelt on the campaign trail in 1912. The absence of random, stream-of-consciousness reminiscence as attempts to carry out present action in a one-character play seem almost inherently doomed to failure. Some "corny" lighting and musical effects only worsen the general lag in the first part...
...peasants still doffed their caps to the Duke's grave and abolished those categories...I mean, you must surely have endured exhaustive, exhausting discussions about X (who "one could never demean by comparing to Chick Corea, Coltrane, McLaughlin, Gillespie," whoever--pick your villain) and his "progressive" jazz that's trail blazing so fast they use dynamite to clear out the way to new enlightenment...
...crew currently making a movie at Lancelot's picturesque mansion. With unlimited funds and the help of a black M.I.T. student who is an electronics wizard, Lancelot has no trouble assembling incriminating video tapes. But he wants more than to film Margot flagrante delicto. Lancelot is on the trail of evil and an affirmation that it still has meaning. Says he: " 'Evil' is surely the clue to this age, the only quest appropriate to the age. For everything and everyone's either wonderful or sick and nothing is evil...