Word: tell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tremendous periods of time is among the most important, actually. Also at some point, the ability to take cues from a variety of sources. If you're standing on stage for 20 minutes, and at one point, you have to make a move, there are several ways you can tell. You can know visually--something happens. You can tell vocally--somebody sings something and you move. The harder ones to take are musical: the orchestra plays something and you move on that...
President Carter took a firm position by making strong statements to tell the Soviet Union and American allies that his administration is serious about its disapproval of the Soviet invasion, Verba said...
...tell you the exact margin," James Thurber wrote in one of his most celebrated diversions. "But . . . you could look it up." Thurber was writing about baseball, specifically, about a game in which a sawed-off number named Pearl du Monville - all 35 inches of him - rallies a flagging team and pushes them on toward the pennant. There are many sources to check sports stats, but for the even woollier recreation of rock 'n' roll, the research pickings have been slim. The Rolling Stone Record Guide (Random House/Rolling Stone Press; $19.95 hard cover, $8.95 in paper) is a lively...
...classes, the news, sit-coms and of course, commercials. The inspired collection of TV clips climaxes when MacLaine tries to seduce Gardiner while he eats breakfast in bed, all of his attention focused on his TV and the irrepressible Mr. Rogers ("won't you be mine?"). Ashby had to tell a story about a man who, like his TV, captures attention wherever he goes yet has so small a brain that the narrative cannot unfold wholly from his perspective because he has no single perspective. In solving this problem of a non-entity at the movie's core, Ashby...