Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weather was perfect. An Indian summer sun shone on the more than 5000 people who gathered to catch a glimpse of the political luminaries who showed up in droves, and, while they were at it, to watch the official launching of what Bok hopes will be a major professional school for public servants...
Corliss taught school in Boston after his graduation from Harvard 51 years ago. "When I retired I didn't want to sit and watch the grass grow, and I didn't want a headache job," he explained. He came to Lamont eight years ago, and now works a tolerable 25 hours each week...
...everything is perfect. I'm a human being. I make mistakes. I change my mind. But I listen to you and I get things done." Later in the afternoon, Brown joined some black politicians at a meeting in a shopping center in Riverside. "Did you watch the game?" he asked as he shook hands. "The Dodgers won." Brown, in fact, had not watched the game, but he has mastered the knack of small talk. While his mostly black audience sipped cocktails and soft drinks and ate guacamole, Brown made his familiar pitch: "Campaigns are three things?taxes, jobs and crime...
Director Chabrol's strategy is the appropriate one: simply to watch Violette with obsessive fascination, in the hope of catching a clue. Not many actresses could make this sort of scrutiny fruitful, but Huppert has the knack of suggesting endlessly watchable depths. The film ends (after Violette has been sentenced to be guillotined, then reprieved and sentenced to twelve years in prison) as did The Lacemaker, the first movie in which she starred: with camera and character star ing at each other gravely and impassively, until the screen goes dark...
...first time. And freaking. And spilling over the buoys into your course. Hold your water, yell at them, and put your port oars over the buoys. Don't miss 'em, it's ten seconds, but cut it real close--this saves more time than you can imagine. Watch out for crews on your outside (you did get the inside of the turn, didn't you, squirt?) and cut across the river into the center arch, taking ten to push it home. Stay calm, oars over the buoys on that last turn by Belmont Hill...