Word: wisp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bolivia, a sterile melodrama sets in. The script now embraces such weighty matters as the alienation of the cowboy from modern society, the alienation of the outlaw from repressive society, and various other alienations. In other words, alienation-a good theme, but a little too ponderously applied to this wisp of a comedy...
...students--and the students weren't black militants, they were white, or moderate, or both--had insisted in asking questions which verged, well, on insult. The reason is that Styron didn't look like an author, a man deeply troubled by hard-to-grasp, will-o'-the-wisp problems; he looked like an administrator...
...moment, it looked as if someone had doused her with water. No, said Twiggy, the outfit is supposed to look that way-sopping wet. At a show in London's Ritz Hotel, fashion's will-o'-the-wisp unveiled the latest shapes from her designing firm: slippery nylon tights that have a "liquid look." But why the bags in the knees and the sags in the ankles? "It's just Twiggy," explained Justin de Villeneuve, her perennial fianc...
...foul tavern he encounters an alcoholic teacher on the verge of a breakdown. Though Eddie at first pegs him as a sentimental phony, their encounter grows from hostility to some understanding, and each leaves with a little more dignity and strength than he had before. A wisp of a theme, but written with a lyrical quality that makes the reader ache for Wideman's sad, inarticulate people...
Goldwater, who has been doing some low-key campaigning on his own of late, maintains that Romney is chasing a will-o'-the-wisp. "At this point," Barry told an interviewer in Washington last week, "I don't see any Republican beating Johnson. No one in recent times has beaten an incumbent President.* The Democrats still control the cities, and the appeal of the federal dollar is still powerful...