Word: veerings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's defense--formerly, number one in the nation--took another statistical beating, giving up 533 yards to Penn's explosive Veer offense. Unable to key on Clune because of Bellizeare, the defense gave up its yardage in huge gobs...
...number of monsters, including the manticore-a creature with the head of a man, the body of a lion and the tail of a dragon. It is himself, the barbed and beastly rationalist. The colloquies between patient and healer are of a high order; now and then they veer unexpectedly into a mad kind of comedy, as when he tells of the attempt of his socially ambitious stepmother and an inept dentist friend to mold a plastic death mask from his father's corpse, with the result that the old man goes to his grave lacking eyebrows...
...seems for a time that The Visitors, like On the Waterfront, will be a defense of the morality of informing. But then the Kazans veer off into other themes-national guilt, war crimes, the human potential for violence-whose weight cannot be supported by the glib script...
...panoramic shot of the mountains, for example, showed distinct layering on the different slopes. But surprisingly, the layers slant in one direction in some places and take a sharply different course in others. Since the layers were probably laid down by the same lava flows, why did they veer off in different directions? The most likely explanation, according to Paul Gast, chief of lunar and planetary science at Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center, is that these flows probably preceded the cataclysmic event (presumably a large meteor impact) that created the Sea of Rains and uplifted the mountains around...
...times recently, Nixon has been in the uncharacteristic position of actually pursuing the press himself-a minor symptom of his tendency to veer from one extreme to another. Two weeks ago, NBC's Barbara Walters was about to embark on a vacation when she received a call from the White House inviting her to bring down a camera crew for what became a two-hour interview for the Today show. Broadcast last week, the program had Nixon chatting about his wife Pat, American family life and other values. When the interviewer prodded him gently about his "stuffy" image...