Word: whole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have a 9 o'clock class every morning and we all come in in a rush. I just go through and smile, without taking out my card. The whole class does it now, I think. --Basil P. Bourque...
...carrying a whole lot of books and couldn't get my bursar's card out of my back pants pocket, so he stuck his hand in and took it out for me. He really checks everything. --Paula Newnham...
Carter's shift of stance on economic affairs has been modest compared with that of his rival in California. Up to primary day, Jerry Brown opposed Proposition 13; when it was approved, he became an overnight convert and began to talk as if the whole thing had been his idea in the first place. People laughed and scoffed, but Brown seems to have survived the flip-flop with votes to spare. The latest survey shows him 25 points ahead of his lackluster Republican opponent, State Attorney General Evelle Younger, whose campaign style is unkindly compared to a mashed-potato sandwich...
...people behind Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? were really smart, they would have handed the whole film over to Morley. Unfortunately, they use the actor as an appetizer rather than the main course. About half an hour after the picture begins, Morley surrenders center stage to his romantic costars, Jacqueline Bisset and George Segal; Chefs suddenly ceases to be a jolly satire on the cooking craze and becomes an exception ally talky whodunit. The movie soon dies as ignominiously as its title characters - drowning in a stew of ketchup-colored blood and rancid red herrings...
...impressive display for a composer whose first memorable work was completed at age 48 and whose musical merit was debated for years. An ardent nationalist and legendary eccentric, Janacek composed music full of short, abrupt but harmonically lovely melodies that built from one another into a driving whole. His symphonic works called for more brass and slashing power than many an orchestra could muster. Because Czech consonant clusters are so prickly, his operas were considered hopeless tongue twisters by singers outside his country. The subjects-time warps, prison-camp life, child murder-left audiences pining for the heraldic posturing more...