Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...husky voice; but her acting was ample compensation. Richard Cassily, as Quint, was severe and impressive in his evil; and to the part of Mrs. Grose, the housekeeper, Ruth Kobart brought a warm understanding. Especially impressive, however, were the children, Bruce Zachariades and Michele Farr, who somehow managed to avoid both dooms awaiting most child actors: self-consciousness and cuddly cuteness...
...sensible planning for a situation such as might arise if the U.S.S.R. or its allies blocked our access to Berlin. In planning for such a contingency, the definition can be used as an argument against using U.S. ground forces as a probe to determine Soviet intentions and thus to avoid the possibility of our being kept out of Berlin by a bluff...
...apparent helplessness of the defendant in a French trial. Yet Director Clouzot's somewhat muddled J'Accuse is directed at more than the Napoleonic Code. It is intended to be a reproach to a callous society. But society will seize any excuse, even tepid acting, to avoid recognizing a reproach. And while Brigitte is an adequate comedienne, her dramatic acting is in the old cowboy tradition of two emotions-hat on and hat off. Except, of course, that with BB what comes...
...Barbecue Team. To win industrial clients, A.D.L. keeps the jobs it does for them secret until they request publicity, will not even admit it has ever worked for a company unless the company gives express permission. To avoid the suspicion that it might use information gleaned from one client to benefit another, Little will take no job if it has ever worked for a competitor on a similar task...
...Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd, wrestled with a new economic crisis. At a luncheon of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce last week, Lloyd tacitly confessed that Britain could no longer afford the economic strain of behaving like a great power, must cut its military expenses and avoid increases in foreign aid. Said Lloyd grimly: "We have been trying to do too much . . . Since the war, we have spent money out of all proportion to our resources to hold the free line throughout the world...