Word: accustomedness
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On the solid theory that audiences are now accustomed to spectaculars that come with stereophonic sound on wide, wide screens, the studio has gone to great lengths to contemporize its classic. The print has been widened to accommodate 70-mm. screens, which unfortunately destroys the symmetry of Director Victor Fleming...
Like many of Shakespeare's other comedies, the rickety plot of As You Like It involves a heroine who assumes masculine disguise. According to Polish Critic Jan Kott, much of the ribaldry, irony and ambiguity of this transvestite change is lost on modern audiences, who are accustomed to seeing...
New Distortions. Confirmed optimists can find selected areas of statistical com fort. Though 555,000 workers remain jobless-a worrisome 2.4% of a labor force accustomed to full employment -the ranks of newly unemployed are now growing only moderately. Because fewer workers are turning out about the same amount of...
Shaw was explaining that distance running was not exactly "his bag" (he's more accustomed to running the mile), when Hardin broke in. "The mile's not your bag either," he said laughing, "it's just that there's no one else who'll run it." (Shaw holds the University...
Even so, the rail panel's recommendation was probably not much more than the unions could have got on their own -if they had been allowed by Congress to strike. For U.S. labor is in an aggressive mood; unions are demanding, and most often getting, more than they have...