Word: tic
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...times, for example, there are very few signs of a world in the chips. Yet, on a given street on a given day, Rolls-Royces idle bumper to splendid bumper; the air is soaked in Bal a Versailles; diamonds go like Tic Tacs. From now to Christmas The New Yorker will be heaving with ads for crystal yaks and other lavish doodads in "limited editions," for which one assumes there must be buyers. Saks Fifth Avenue, which advertises itself as all the things we are, has recently decided that we are a 14-karat gold charge plate ($750). Of course...
...press could cover better what has happened if it were not so preoccupied with trying to guess what is going to happen next. This occupational tic, this desire to sound "knowing" about the not yet knowable, is what makes so much journalism quickly forgettable. The urge is highly visible during the Reagan interregnum, with Washington reporters and columnists desperately inflating every little nod about future policies, or hint about appointments, from the Reagan camp...
...Bujones and a precise, rather chilly one from Terabust; the intricate variations fell to baby ballerinas who were rarely up to their tasks. Makarova and Dowell danced Béjart's Sonata No. 5 as if blindingly fused together, down to the last sinuous contortion and arbitrary tic. The world premiere of Vendetta, created for Makarova by Choreographer Lorca Massine, gave her the chance to put on a gypsy costume and flirt and shimmy with Dowell, Bujones and Ganio, amid much running about by the corps. What was supposed to have been a crowd-pleaser proved chiefly a puzzler...
What Method actor would not love to work with John Cassavetes? His films (Shadows, Faces, A Woman Under the Influence) are actors' showcases. His camera waits patiently for the smallest behavioral tic or the grandest explosion of dynamite acting. The characters he creates are compulsive talkers, walkers, smokers, prowling the urban nightscape, their lives a cacophonic symphony of desperation, their aggressions spilling out like a Bowery bum's shirttail. Cassavetes encourages openness, improvisation, the primacy of being over performing. An actor prepares, and the moviegoer watches, and Cassavetes approves. He as much as tells his cast: The screen...
THEY HAVE THIS CONTEST at Dunkin' Donuts. Buy a coffee or a cruller and you get a small, rectangular card. Back in the car, coffee resting on the floor, scratch the little wax squares off the card with your thumbnail; some luck and you've won "Tic Tac Dough." On the back are the odds against winning--an even chance would require drinking something more than a million cups of coffee...