Word: snapshots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political portraits, the author almost always settles for a snapshot, which would be sufficient for bit characters but doesn't satisfy in the case of a president. There's more to the man in the White House than a short memory and a tendency to oversimplify. Buchwald could still be ironic and point out that Reagan and his ilk follow an American dream inherently weighted towards those who are already strong over those who are struggling to survive. Instead, the columnist settles for the easier "All politicians are clowns" line. Case closed. One of the few exceptions to this tendency...
Tourists stream in and out of the Square all summer clambering off buses for an obligatory look an John Harvard's statue (and an obligatory snapshot of girlfriend in lap of same). They find a climate that can only be described as oppressive (though geographically the city is in the temperate zone the weather here is tropical for most of the summer). Last year, when record temperatures' plagued the area for weeks, many of the tourists took their pictures through the tinted windows of their air-conditioned Greyhounds. The only relief is water; hence the city hospital daily treats patients...
...good intentions and horror at the story cause severe purpling of the writing at crucial times--her book is at least a sensitive, steady account of the facts, given a moving dimension through her relationship with the murderer. Though Rule, like Larson, is unable to get past a snapshot description of the victims to make them stand out as individual sacrifices to the sociopath, one feels it is not because of a deadness of her moral sense. Unlike Larson's rote transcription of the case, The Stranger Beside Me grapples with Ted Bundy on human terms...
...welling with arrogance, and unwilling to take a licking. In The Great Santini, writer/director Louis John Carlino has personified the America of the early '60s as extremist, an example of what the excessive confidence and arrogance becomes when it possess men. But The Great Santini is more than a snapshot of an era; it is an exposition of the state of racial relations in the South, a treatment of adolescence in a time of changing and conflicting values, and a movie about death. With this many themes, it takes on the aspect of a great forest with numerous trails that...
Women have long had little to do with the field of chemistry beyond dissolving coffee crystals in HO, say, or oxidizing strips of bacon by placing them on a heat-conductive surface. Photosynthesis generally meant reorganizing the family snapshot album. But opportunities have expanded. According to a study by the American Chemical Society, women graduates in chemistry now get better salary offers than their male classmates. In 1979 the median starting salary of women with a bachelor's degree in chemistry was $15,600, compared with $15,000 for men. For women who specialized in chemical engineering, the median...