Word: apts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TITLE of the Currier House film series is almost shamefully apt, for that is pretty much the position of women in the movie industry: women are in films, but rarely on the other side of the camera. A few women have had productive careers as screenwriters-Anita Loos, Dorothy Parker, Jane Murfin, Lillian Hellman, and most recently, Adrian Joyce ( Five Easy Pieces ). But even before Pauline Kael began talking about it, it was easy to see that Hollywood treated writers (male and female) as little more than unfortunate necessities. Often, the most powerful women in the movie business are those...
...majority of innovations were the result of practical need or at least stimulated by social demands. "The continuation of ivory tower social scientists in the future seems apt to be minor indeed," said Deutsch...
...fabulous growth rate of the Japanese economy-projected at 10% for this year-has long obscured its fragile foundation. Japan is almost totally dependent on overseas sources for raw materials. A 20-day supply of such items is all that Japanese industry is apt to have at any given time, and it is becoming increasingly tough to maintain the necessary flow of imports...
VIENTIANE, LAOS (DNSI)-An old Laotian proverb, "when the elephants fight, the grass gets trampled," is usually applied to battles between outside powers here. It is equally apt, however, in describing the conflicts among giant American agencies over the use of air power in this tiny nation...
...squeezes the last drop out of all the old good-time virtues. The beginning of the film delights in physicality. There is a long vomit sequence that, for all its sordidness, perfectly expresses the emotions at the end of a two-day drunk. Vomiting is Cassavetes' simple but apt metaphor for twenty years of marriage suddenly become twenty years too much...