Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does it? Serreau makes her point extremely well; her film is beautifully cast, well-written and technically flawless. But her approach has a gaping hole in it. The skill with which she sensitively portrayed those outside of society apparently vanished when she was called upon to portray those within. To emphasize just how happy and fulfilled Fernand, Alexa and Louis are, she reduces the film's "straights" into one-dimensional jokes. Fernand's ex-wife is a case in point. She sports grotesque polyester clothes, has a permanent Pat Nixon hairdo and screams continually at her children. Her voice grates...
...have been here for six weeks," he tells us. "It's unavoidable." The refugees get a roof over their heads, two meals a day (one hot, one dry ration), medical assistance (if available) and one airmail letter (with postage) per family. As you walk through the camp, people approach you with scraps of paper and beg you to send telegrams to Washington or call their relatives in Los Angeles...
...toward déetente with the Soviet Union and coped with crises in the Middle East, Cuba and the Indian subcontinent. We will also present a gallery of famous figures as limned by Kissinger, his insights into the statesman's craft and the philosophy that underpins his entire approach to foreign policy...
Steady, now: one delicate shudder, then to business. Water with the pill? Fine. Here we are in Hanover, N.H., where the Dartmouth College campus quickens to the approach of the fall term and a few of the weaker maple trees are beginning to turn orange. The occasion is the Fourth International Conference on Computers and-what is this?-the Humanities. Is the conference title a self-contradiction, like "fresh-frozen" or "Young Republican"? The observer, a humanist in a dry season, resolutely programs himself to suppress his real attitude toward computers, which is a feeling of smugness and superiority masking...
...Edward Kennedy campaign. As he sat beneath the family pictures, explaining the partial announcement that was heard as a clear declaration, Kennedy evinced no enthusiasm, no great relish of what lies before him. "This is a very sober challenge," he said softly, "one that you have to approach from a very sober point of view." He paused and then added in an even quieter voice...