Word: windup
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...With the windup of the congressional hearings, the matter now moves to the courts. Relatives of two victims in the Paris crash have filed suits against McDonnell Douglas asking damages of $10 million. More suits are expected. The trials may force out answers to the remaining mysteries in the case-especially the question of why McDonnell Douglas records showed a door modification that had never been made...
...this production a special bow should go to Director Stephen Porter, who keeps the pace as antic as a berserk windup toy. Should you care to get intoxicated on laughter, Chemin de Per is a madcap nightcap of a show. T.E.K
After that pitch, Graham went into a windup for the real product--and his salesmanship was equally masterful. Each night it was a little different. Two nights were "youth nights," so his special guests were disproportionately sports celebrities and rock singers, and his sermon played with the theme of romantic love...
Christopher Hampton's adaptation transcribes rather than transcends Ibsen's antique dramaturgy, while Patrick Garland's direction is curiously uninflected, so the whole enterprise gives off the air of a respectful college theatrical. As Nora Helmer, Claire Bloom seems to substitute aspiration for inspiration-a windup doll whose spring is not wound tightly enough under the tensions of dull domesticity in the early going, and who completely runs down in the final confrontation with her husband. As her antagonist, Anthony Hopkins acts more like a spoiled adolescent than an oppressor to reckon with. A quartet of worthy...
WHILE the world focused on the successful windup of the Viet Nam cease-fire negotiations last week, the subtle volleying between East and West that may make 1973 what Henry Kissinger called "the year of Europe" entered a chilly new phase. The talks that will set the shape of post-cold war Europe have not even yet begun. Already, though, the Soviets seem to have grabbed an advantage-one that will force some sharp reassessments of the West's ability to translate detente into an era of genuinely relaxed tensions along the Continent's military and ideological frontiers...