Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...area's leading landowner, and Olmo (Gerard Depardieu), a peasant who works the estate. During the film's first and better half, Bertolucci lyrically propels his heroes through the rituals of young manhood: they discover the meaning of sex and money, search for love and adjust to the passing of their family patriarchs (Burt Lancaster and Sterling Hayden). As Alfredo and Olmo grow older, their personalities are increasingly shaped by the volatile social forces that remade Italy during and between the World Wars. Eventually their isolated agrarian community becomes a microcosm of a nation battered by Fascist, socialist...
...have a small cadre of zealous supporters, the most prominent of whom was Bess Myerson, Miss America of 1945, the city's former consumer affairs commissioner and now a savvy political woman about town. In addition, Koch had a strategy. A self-proclaimed "liberal with sanity," he would adjust to the harsh new realities of life in the city by emphasizing management reform and by taking a tough line on fighting crime-including advocating capital punishment. He also became incumbent Mayor Abe Beame's sternest critic...
...uncertainties are preventing businessmen from making needed investments, such as expanded research programs to develop new sources of energy. Executives see such serious risks that they will start only projects promising a high, and quick, profit. Says Greenspan, borrowing a football term: "The market system's ability to adjust to perceived future imbalances is being blind-sided by these very high risks...
...sets would be closed, he explained, but there would be cameramen, technicians. "You're going to lie there like a piece of meat while they adjust the lighting. We can't use a double; the skin colors would be wrong. And some camera guy is going to run a tape measure down from his lens to your ass?zip!?to get his focus right. Can you work with that...
...Santa Fe, N.M., from New York, you pant," Mortimer said. "And you never completely adjust. It gets better, but you never get used to that lack of oxygen, even though it's not something you notice...