Word: winded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...showing an unusually large percentage of uncommitted voters, and it's indicative of a certain mood in the primary that may set the tone of the race right up until the national conventions this summer: the presidential contenders are just gushing with rhetoric, they move like reeds in the wind, swaying from week to week--and in some cases, from hour to hour--without any firm commitment or even lip service to issues or ideology...
Actually, the leaked report played right into the hands of the growing number of critics who argue that the investigations have weakened the needed secret agencies. The backlash over the leaks threw the congressional investigators further on the defensive, just as both committees were winding up their probes. The weak and fumbling House committee, headed by zealous New York Congressman Otis Pike, disbanded last week, and Church's Senate panel, which has been less accident-prone, is to wind up by March 1. As a result, the Administration had an opportunity to push its own proposals for reform...
Carl Nielsen: Wind Quintet plus three other chamber works (Vestjysk Kammerensemble Denmark; Deutsche Grammophon: $7.98). Nielsen's 1922 quintet for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon sought to unveil the individual personality of each wind instrument. In this idyllic piece evoking wild birds and long tree shadows, the flute is very much at home in the forest. The mood quickens, driven by a jazzy oboe, and the clarinet squabbles with the bassoon. The Western Jutland Chamber Ensemble plays with grace, rhythmic drive and a certain sense of mischief...
...American speed skating sensation of the week, though, was lanky Peter Mueller. Taking advantage of being among the first to race on a track that became progressively slower in a rising wind, Mueller churned through the 1,000-meter showdown more than a second faster than his closest pursuer-an overwhelming margin of victory in a race where finishers are clustered within hundredths of a second. For Mueller, 21, fiancé of the 1,500-meter silver medalist Leah Poulos, the victory was the payoff for 15 years of gruelling training. "He's crazy about this sport," says Poulos...
Though Joan Samson's first novel owes its resonance to Shirley Jackson's American-gothic short story The Lottery, the book tends to provoke rather than frighten. The author's poetic imagery highlights the New England scene and characters: "Beneath the high wind, a tongue of water rang against the scoured stones like the wooden clapper in a bell, warning that they were slippery." The Auctioneer becomes less a tale of suspense than a parable of politics. The open questions it poses are as old as society itself: What is the nature of power? What makes people...