Word: reactional
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...investigative work, and with a minimum of effort becomes a renowned journalist. He is extraordinarily difficult to identify with, because we get little more than fleeting glimpses at what makes him tick. What could be a complex and moving figure is instead an empty observer who evokes little reaction...
Emily Culpepper '82 had a typical reaction. "It doesn't look like Elsie's anymore," she said. "That's the problem...
...anyone dissociate him/herself from the all-too-real pain? How can anyone with the slightest parental urge--or human decency--laugh at a delivery that ends in bloody death? And, given that laughter is a complex entity and could signal distress as well as pleasure, why was the reaction to the movie overwhelmingly, ecstatically favorable...
...reaction to the Carter program has been critical. Connecticut Democrat Robert Giaimo, the powerful chairman of the House Budget Committee, called it "statesmanlike." And Walter Heller, the University of Minnesota economist, approvingly observed that it was "a carefully crafted conservative program." One of its most commendable points is that despite its election-year timing, it contains more relief for business than for vote-casting individuals. Said Carter: "Now is no time for an excessive stimulus program nor for inflationary tax reductions. We must make careful investments in American productivity." The program's benefits for business will be worth about...
...role, in the old Kraft Theater. Says she: "He was a terrible actor then-we laugh about it now-and totally charming." Dougherty also turned up Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman. Stalmaster's finds include Jon Voight (four lines in Hour of the Gun), James Caan (a silent reaction in Irma La Douce) and Gilda Radner (an other silent bit in The Last Detail...