Word: arching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Le Carré, Writer-Director Bryan Forbes tried to turn a routine story about the last personal and professional adventures of a gentleman robber into an existential parable. Sadly, the material is too airy to bear the weight of Forbes' meaningful silences and rambunctious camerawork. The arch dialogue is genuine tin (exhausted heroine to Caine: "Have you done it very often in strange rooms with girls who have husbands?"). In the best anti-hero tradition, Caine dies by bungling his last job, losing the girl and getting shot in the back while dangling off a roof...
...hospital on land to be purchased from a corporation represented by his own law firm. Mississippi Senator James Eastland, a millionaire cotton farmer, fights strenuously for higher price supports for cotton. Though he vociferously opposes "big Government spending," Eastland received $129,997 last year in farm subsidies. Representative Arch Moore Jr., a Republican from West Virginia, belongs to a law firm that has Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. for a client. In the House, Moore "champions" restrictions on imports of competing glass...
...William F. Buckley Jr., the arch, conservative editor of National Review, liberal Republican Nelson Rockefeller is so far out in left field that he's out side the G.O.P. park. Yet every time Buckley opened a newspaper, there was Rocky's determined visage adorning a full-page ad filled with short-sentence solutions to the Viet Nam war, riots in the cities and inflation. Buckley finally asked Associate Editor C. H. Simonds to see if he could outdo the Manhattan agency of Jack Tinker & Partners Inc., which supplied the Rocky ads. The result, in the current National Review...
BELLE DE JOUR. Aging but still arch, Spanish Director Luis Bunuel has filled this piece of baroque pornography about the obsessive fantasies of a young housewife (Catherine Deneuve) with some of his most mordant jokes and anticlerical broadsides...
...requirements towards those of the new major. For example, under certain circumstances the department will grant permission to substitute its math and physics requirement with courses from the much wider list of Visual Studies required and optional related courses. Also all Vis Stud courses will be equally open to Arch Sci concentrators next year. It is important that the old department let its concentrators make their programs of study as much like those of the new department as possible...