Word: rather
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Comic Art of Woody Allen. The cult of Woody Allen would be inexplicable if he didn't touch on some particular mood special to his times--the anxious defeated mood of the likeable losing neurotic. And the extent of his success would suggest that he touches on it rather in kind reassurance than in a searching or nasty spirit...
There is little chance, however, that Canada will soon raise its net oil sales to the U.S., now a rather modest 100,000 bbl. a day, (vs. 425,000 bbl. from Mexico). Dedicated to energy independence and fearful that conventional oil will decline in spite of the recent finds, Canada is not even fully exploiting Alberta's capacity of 1.8 million bbl. a day. Says Mitchell Sharp, the commissioner of Canada's Northern Pipeline Agency: "The U.S. should drop any ideas it might have about a North American energy common market...
...Brentano's bookstore in Manhattan, Thomson ignored the limousine that had been sent to fetch him from his apartment in the fin de siècle Chelsea Hotel and marched to the festivities on his own. He also chose stairs instead of an elevator and a hard chair rather than a soft one, but he did consent to pose at the piano with his cake and a group of fellow musicians that included Conductor André Kostelanetz...
...Ballard's sumptuous images exist only to distract from his rather conventional failings of craftsmanship. The ruse does not succeed. Though the freckle-faced Reno and Mickey Rooney (as the horse's crafty old trainer) are well cast, then-scenes together are perfunctory and impersonal. Emotions are provided in stead by a busy and overbearing musical score. The film's story begins to move in fits and starts. Except for the inevitable big race, it is not advanced visually but by bald snatches of voice-over dialogue. No doubt children in the audience will have a fine...
...feature writer in 1967. The Globe let her write a few opinion pieces and in 1972 made her a regular columnist, first in the Living section and then on the editorial page. Says Anne Wyman, the Globe's editorial-page editor: "At the beginning, I thought she was rather shrill. She's become much more thoughtful, much more serious, also much more compassionate." Goodman is not a columnist who strives for Delphic detachment. "You can't be an anonymous, amorphous 'voice of authority,' " she believes. "You have to establish a person who can be trusted...