Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Anarchy, are once again fine here, but their characterizations suffer from the deletion of nearly 20 minutes of running time, eliminated by the American distributors in an attempt to make proceedings a little breezier. The movie is somewhat puzzling in some of its transitions, more than a little abrupt in Mimi's abandoning his principles-and the reflection they find in his love for Fiore. However, no serious damage results from the condensation...
...more than three years, Chile held out a beacon of hope to the rest of the world. It seemed to prove that people could take power over the places where they worked--over their own lives, in the last analysis--without violence, without infringing on traditional liberties, without an abrupt break with the past. Now that beacon is gone...
Servan-Schreiber's brief tenure in the Cabinet came to an abrupt end after he read a wire-service report that France's nuclear-testing program in the Pacific Ocean would be resumed this month. Servan-Schreiber, a longtime opponent of testing, warned Chirac by telephone that he would speak out against the decision the next day. Chirac asked the volatile J.J.-S.S. to be "discreet," which was a bit like asking Martha Mitchell to abstain from telephone calls...
...more than three years, Chile held out a beacon of hope to the rest of the world. It seemed to prove that people could take power over the places where they worked--over their own lives, in the last analysis--without violence, without infringing on traditional liberties, without an abrupt break with the past. Now that beacon is gone...
...attention is focused on him as he struts across stage, rants, raves, and philosophizes. Polinsky tends to overdramatize, and his physical movements seem so nervously unfocused that you wish someone would hand him a pacifier. Ingalls isn't given as much of a chance to demonstrate her talents. Her abrupt change of attitude towards her captor, from the moment she tries to escape to the next when she docilely hops into bed with the hero, is hardly believable. This is not so much Ingalls's fault as the play's, which has altogether too many unfulfilled moments...