Word: unfold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Angry Men [1957]. Henry Fonda and a bunch of excellent character actors in a tribute to the reason of man, the primacy of law, and all that. The message may be trite, but this is a terrific film to watch unfold. Ch. 56, 8 p.m. B/W, 2 hours...
Glistening white spirits of Indian temple dancers unfold before a bereaved lover (Anthony Dowell) in slowly revolving multiple-image arabesques...
...prose. The turbulence is still there, but plot has all but disappeared from Hawkes's novels. The Traveller of his new work is a middle-aged Dutchman, Allert Vanderveenan, who is waiting, alone, for his wife to leave him. This is clear by page two. What remains is to unfold the narrator's involuted emotional life with a disquieting force that could not have been imagined by the inventor of the catch phrase, "psychological novel...
There has been little doubt for months that the consuming issue of the 1974 mid-term vote will be Watergate. But with Election Day just seven months away, candidates and leaders of both parties are increasingly realizing that much of the campaign may unfold against more than just a scandal: it could well coincide with the first presidential impeachment proceeding in more than a century...
...from all other nights?" a child would ask at the Seder, the ritual meal on the first night of the week-long feast. Why the matzo? Why the bitter herbs? Then, as the family followed the rites set down in the Haggadah (literally, a "telling"), the old story would unfold: the bitter slavery under the Pharaoh and God's scourging of Egypt with plagues until the children of Israel were set free. And always, that last terrible plague, when the wrath of God slew the first-born of every Egyptian but passed over the houses of the captive Hebrews...