Word: threshold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Director-Writer Robert Benton and his cast have made their own Scenes from a Marriage-a domestic drama that starts at a wrenching pitch and builds and builds to the threshold of pain. Yet the film is not imitation Bergman; it is, above all, peculiarly American. Adapting a popular novel by Avery Corman, Benton tells an unpretentious story that might well have served such vintage Hollywood tearjerkers as George Stevens' Penny Serenade and King Vidor's Stella Dallas...
This has never happened to V.S. Pritchett, who, on the threshold of his 80th year, writes as passionately as ever. Talent, discipline and enjoyment keep the juices flowing; recognition helps. Knighted hi 1975, Sir Victor is generally regarded as the best literary journalist working both sides of the Atlantic. His two-volume autobiography, A Cab at the Door and Midnight Oil, are quiet marvels of English prose and self-appraisal, and his stories have accrued into a body of major work...
...Pelt brought the Tigers to the doorstep with an eight-yd. run on the next play and Reynolds took them over the threshold on a bootleg left from the three. Princeton then showed that Navarro's concern was not for naught when a fumbled snap by Reynolds on the conversion forced a passing attempt that fell incomplete...
...Threshold...
...stood, I fervently hoped, at the threshold of a period of national reconciliation that would be given impetus by the unique opportunity for creativity I saw ahead. Only rarely in history do statesmen find an environment in which all factors are so malleable; before us, I thought, was the chance to shape events, to build a new world. I was grateful for the opportunity I had enjoyed to help prepare the ground. And I was at peace with myself, neither elated...