Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...personal "shame" here, as there was for Dylan himself in Hurricane, but only an abstract, movie-like notion of a heavenly father handing out just rewards and punishments...
Popular Idea. In the abstract, the notion of restraining-or at least reshaping-the Government is a popular idea these days even with many liberal Democrats, who have scented the same political winds as Ford. What is more, the President's conservative budget will certainly help him against the conservative Reagan. But it is also certain to embroil him in sharp battles with Congress...
...flaws and eccentricities, The Romantic Englishwoman is an interesting and intelligent film. In subordinating narrative realism to the psychological dynamics of a marriage, this movie occasionally evokes the inevitable fears more sharply than the discursive Scenes from a Marriage. It's all somewhat abstract, but the romanticism of this particular Englishwoman and - man is, after all, only a state of mind...
...since Friday," she said last week, after her first days on the job). Most probably, she will attempt to apply her clear-as-mud mandate to such matters as wheat sales, export taxes and passports. But even some State Department officials concede that in their domain consumer concerns are abstract at best and entrenched bureaucrats will probably resist consumerist encroachments on their powers...
...replace its timeworn symbols, the rainbow-plumed peacock and the cursive cluster of letters known affectionately as "the snake." The network retained Lippincott & Margulies, a Manhattan firm specializing in corporate facelifts. After 14 months, at a cost estimated to be as high as $750,000, L. & M. produced an abstract N composed of two trapezoids, one red, one blue. NBC is now emblazoning the N on cameras, microphones, stationery, packaging, uniforms, and office walls. Probable total cost: another couple of million...