Word: training
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When that last distress call crackled over the air from the beleaguered U.S. merchant ship Mayaguez in the Gulf of Siam last week, it set in motion a dramatic, controversial train of events that significantly changed the image of U.S. power in the world?and the stature of President Gerald Ford. By calling up U.S. military might and successfully forcing the Cambodians to surrender the ship and free the 39-man crew, Ford acted more firmly and decisively than at any other time in his presidency. By drawing the line against aggression in the Mayaguez incident, he put potential adversaries...
...inferior to Scenes from a Marriage in its dissection of a couple's relationship. Visual snatches of Paul caressing Adriana's leg or putting his hand under her shirt serve to force his character into a one-dimensional world of male physicality and insensitivity. The periodic eruption of a train into the placid Swiss countryside relentlessly hammers us with its tiresome commentary on Paul's mentality; rational, utilitarian, compartmentalized. Adriana is the classic female--equal shares of mysterious introspection, intuitive insight and the constant assertion of the spiritual over the physical. As she is about to make love with Paul...
...adolescent intellectual pretense and a sweetness that makes him melt at the sight of an appealing house pet. But that is how it should be for the newest, brightest star in an art that is itself a series of paradoxes. What other discipline demands of its practitioners that they train like athletes and sweat like stevedores in order to achieve romantic effects of the most ethereal nature? What other art places such emphasis on tradition, yet depends on such unreliable resources-the kinesthetic memories of its artists, the visual recollections of its devotees -to preserve that tradition? What other...
...Brandeis in nearby Waltham, meanwhile, a multiracial group of about 30 students took over Pearlman Hall, the sociology building, and held it despite an injunction ordering them out. They demanded that the university drop plans to cut back its Transitional Year Program (which helps train many poorly prepared minority students for undergraduate work), to reduce financial aid and dismiss some faculty. Brandeis, which has a projected budget of $32.8 million for next year, is suffering from inflated costs and the recession; this year its income from gifts is $3 million below projections. If the cuts go through, the students said...
...graceful young man. Luigi (Daniel Quenaud), whose cardboard sensitivity and self-indulgent acting make him an ersatz Prince Charming. This love affair is brief and passionate, but unconsummated for the spell is abruptly broken by Clara's cure, which inexorably returns her to obligations at home. As the train hurtling southward nears Milan, the skies darken with thunderclouds, gracelessly symbolizing the descent from ethereal realms of sweetness and light into the quotidian agonies of proletarian life...