Word: waits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sent Carter a message acknowledging, in the U.S. President's words, "that the proper relationship between sovereign nations is to have full diplomatic relations." The Soviets objected to the joint Chinese-American communique opposing "hegemony," which is a Chinese code word for Soviet expansionism. Otherwise, Moscow took a wait-and-see attitude toward the U.S. Noting that Carter had assured the U.S.S.R. that the China deal would not harm Soviet interests, Pravda said, "This is a very important statement, and time will show if these words accord with practical deeds and political actions." Thus the Kremlin seemed to have...
...Longest Wait for Godot: Francis Ford Coppola's Viet Nam epic, Apocalypse, Now, first scheduled for 1977, now due next fall...
...coincidentally star John Travolta, who this time last year was known only to TV viewers. The hungry white shark, or his bereaved mate, that gobbled up the dollars in the summer of 1975 swam back for another big bite in Jaws II, which grossed $98.6 million. Heaven Can Wait, Warren Beatty's good-humored remake of the 1941 fantasy Here Comes Mr. Jordan, grossed $72 million, and The Goodbye Girl, another film from late 1977, grossed $82 million. Though it opened only this month, Superman seems to have taken wing already, with an estimated $12 million gross...
Heaven Can Wait. In this remake of Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Warren Beatty and true love triumph even over death...
...opinions seem right most of the time, but not so invariably right as to be insufferable. Too much Tightness shuts off debate and stifles the thought process. Sheed provides a good mixture of wisdom and nonsense, so that the reader finds himself saying, "Yeah, yeah, right," and then, "Now wait a minute!" He is properly appreciative of Edmund Wilson, sound on Walker Percy and P.O. Wodehouse, and amusing about the mandarins of New York film reviewing. He goes awry when he tries to deal with Hemingway, perceiving the oafishness and neuroticism but for the most part missing the art. Never...