Word: whole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...often park on the street opposite Lawrence's home. He is convinced they have "studied" every member of his family down to his eight grand children. He has survived more than a dozen shootouts with high-powered guns He has been offered bribes up to $250,000 "The whole thing is greed," he snorts "You have to meet 'em head...
...through the eyes of men. Finally, a man and woman unhappily in love enter the valley, and the spirit enters him. It finds "a world more suffocating and painful than the Atlájala had thought possible." Within the woman, though, "each element was magnified in intensity, the whole sphere of being was immense, limitless." At the top of his art, Bowles is an anima; to inhabit this book is to experience pain and immensity...
Fellini's crucial error is his movie's governing conceit. Rehearsal is built on a single, restrictive metaphor: the notion that a symphony orchestra can stand as a paradigm of society as a whole. Set entirely in a lovely 13th century oratory, the film ostensibly describes the rehearsal of an unnamed piece by the late film composer Nino Rota. But very quickly Fellini bends his dramatic situation into a cautionary tale about the dangers of anarchy. The musicians begin by goofing off and refusing to play together; then they break into open, violent revolt against their German conductor...
...learn that this alarming vulnerability is an affectation and a part of her strategy as a writer. Despite all the fits of weeping and the killer migraines and the California dreads that blow across her novels and essays like the Santa Ana winds, Didion is on the whole as tough as a bounty hunter, and about as fragile as a brick of molybdenum. The wounded bird is even something of a predator...
...running and conditioning has already been written at marathon length. One would be wrong. For those who have not been rendered glassy-eyed by The Complete Book of Running, fuzzy-brained by Running and Being or stultified by indistinguishable issues of Runner's World, there is a whole new crop of books on running and walking. All amply demonstrate that whatever exercise does for the heart and lungs, it does little for literary skills...