Word: watchfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thanks to Mr. Thomas Bradley's decision to run for mayor, the citizens of Los Angeles had the opportunity to see themselves in daylight. Not a very pretty sight to watch-fear and prejudice surface and prevail. Possibly even more frightening is the Los Angeles voter's lack of qualms about jeopardizing the future of his city by placing it in the hands of a ruthless opportunist...
...smoke screen of Irish bulls and blarney that no colonial officer could penetrate. Forbidden to write patriotic songs, they wrote love poems to a girl that sounded suspiciously like Eire, hate poems couched as hymns and generally got things so snarled up that they even have to watch each other. (The best Irish talkers have eyes like terriers'.) Gulliver's Travels, the Anglo-Irish classic, is the high point of the two traditions: a folk tale of giants and dwarfs and transformations, and a good ironic belt at English politics. The stage Irishman, or rollicking boyo, which developed...
...Filipinos, working on G.I.s and tourists, hold up huge bouquets or pieces of fruit while working on wallets in the visitors' hip pockets." ¶"Korean children extend cheap dolls to travelers on departing trains; as they bargain, the kids break the watch straps on the outstretched arms...
...Nebraska boy who started in television as a gag writer, then graduated to performing. Mostly in jest, he credits his late-blooming success to the Hong Kong-flu epidemic that hit the nation just as his morning program was floundering. "It kept people home who otherwise wouldn't watch daytime television...
...almost overwhelming. Where the slow-motion murders in Bonnie and Clyde were balletic, similar scenes in The Wild Bunch have the agonizing effect of prolonging the moment of impact, giving each death its own individual horror. Peckinpah repeatedly suggests that the true victims of violence are the young. Children watch the scenes of brutality and carnage wide-eyed, with little fear; a Mexican mother nurses her child by holding her bandolier aside, the baby's tiny fists pressed up against the cartridges. Finally, with mounting excitement, one boy gets to participate in his first fight-and excitedly shoots Pike...