Word: abjectly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago were the golden days between Nixon's 1971-72 "garden variety" recession and the unheralded advent of the '74-75 abject slump. Rick Mendelson '75, whom everyone describes as "a very bright and high-powered guy," had just become editor of the Harvard Political Review, bringing with him the seeds of a cultural revolution. Mendelson's predilictions were towards graphics, promotion, and marketing, as were those of his associate editor, Tim Bliss '75. They thought that with a slicker-looking product the Review could appeal to a much wider audience than just the Harvard wastebaskets where...
...almost revels in the punishment Gennarino deals out; certainly the sequences of Raffaella's subjugation are among the most strident and unpleasant in recent mem ory. It is discomfiting, especially in a movie made by a woman, to see the ma jor female character turned into such an abject creature. The fact that Actors Melato and Giannini, who starred together as well in Love and Anarchy and The Seduction of Mimi, are so wonderfully skillful only tips the movie's emotional imbalance further. They bring an awk ward poignancy, a true but misplaced tenderness to Wertmuller...
Dr.M. Judah Folkman doesn't like to see his name associated in print with cures for cancer. No matter how obscure the reference, Folkman says, he is "deluged, absolutely deluged" with abject pleas for treatment, and the publicity is not worth the suffering it causes...
...national will to search for solutions to the problems which affect the future of the country." Fardin is probably right, but the government's response to his forthright criticism, typically, was to have him thrown in jail. Meanwhile, thousands upon thousands of hungry Haitians stoically endure the most abject poverty in the Western Hemisphere...
...personal dramas in The Day of the Locust are so sour and abject that one understands why Schlesinger ended the film with such a desperate flourish. All the characters from the book are here: Homer Simpson (Donald Sutherland in a fine performance), the boggled Midwesterner whose hands, West said, "had a life of their own"; Harry Greener (Burgess Meredith), a busted-down vaudevillian whose daughter Faye (Karen Black) is the sort of teasing, intemperate beauty who slaughters men with a smile. Karen Black is a bothersome actress at best, strident and sloppy; she does not even have what acting schools...