Word: words
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York is a cavernous, dark, dirty beehive of vehicles, scurrying travellers, hustlers, religious people pushing books and leaflets containing the word of many gods, stores, waiting rooms--and, on the Monday night after spring term finals ended last year, me. I was heading out on the 11 p.m. Greyhound for Los Angeles, pack and sleeping bag on my back and cap on my head. I was looking for America...
...helped any when the hotel's proprietess banged on our door and threatened to arrest us for overflowing the shower. Now I knew that doing one to five on an illegal bathing rap was unlikely, but this small town and its seemingly endless supply of cops would take the word of a respectable citizen against two dirty, hippy-looking hitch hikers, so we ignored her demands to open the door lest she see our jewelry spread out on the bed and call in the local National Guard unit. I didn't sleep well that night, expecting the wailing of sirens...
...inside word is that the University--if it comes anywhere close to fulfilling the goals of the mammoth fund drive--will almost surely cough up $1 or $2 million crumb to get rid of the obsolete electrical, heating and plumbing systems that are supposed to protect the well-being of thousands of Harvard students...
...Exorcist. William Friedkin's film of William Peter Blatty's reasonably entertaining novel is cinematic vomit--in a word, a gross-out. Or maybe two words. Friedkin, whose hit-'em-over the head style should confine him to urban crime thrillers, shoves his disgusting images into our faces in a manner reminiscent of Linda Blair shoving a crucifix into her crotch. Crunch, crunch. Blatty's novel needed: a) someone less pretentious than Blatty to write the screenplay, and b) a director with more of a sense of lyricism and wit, a modern James Whale, or a Hitchcock, or even...
...union members at the meeting, however, said they mistrusted the University's verbal offer. "It's not written on paper, and we don't know if Harvard will go back on its word," one worker said...