Word: badly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home-school cooperation," says one principal. "What are we going to say now when a kid cuts classes?" Students saw some teachers break windows in school buses. Indeed, some parents have told their children that they do not have to obey certain teachers any more. 'They set a bad example," declares MacArthur Junior Suzanne Lewis. "They broke...
MAGIC RESEMBLES A bad magician's act -- the skilled hands at work simply lack the ability to generate suspense or even to entertain. Part of the blame for this less-than-thrilling thriller lies with the ponderous pace of Richard Attenborough's direction, the same touch that made his A Bridge Too Far an hour too long. Nor is there much life in William Goldman's script, which uncomfortably straddles the genres of mystery and psycho-drama. The familiar theme of the mad ventriloquist and his not-so-dumb dummy can still invoke shudders, but the filmakers' failure to find...
Luckily, Anthony Hopkins is a fascinating actor to watch, even when saddled with such bad material. Although the script denies him the chance to develop Corky's madness gradually, Hopkins manages to vary the histrionics and constantly radiates an appealing boyishness, even after Corky has just slit someone's jugular. Hopkins' performance nearly salvages the movie, even though he is strongly hampered by the efforts of a bad dialect coach, who must think that Catskills residents talk like third-rate Brando imitators. Actually, Hopkins' accent is the most unpredictable aspect of Magic...
...together with the rest of the welfare state, it is responsible for Britain's post-war economic decline. Yet beyond this criticism, many Americans have little conception of what comprehensive national health services like those in Britain consist of, and cling to the conviction that socialized medicine is a bad thing. This tends to mean that they are willing to put up with a system that is costly, uneven, and in which the majority of the population are not even fully covered by health insurance. Consequently, ill-health is something to be feared here, even more than in most other...
...wouldn't have. As bad as the stream was where they'd found me, each successive one was worse--bigger and stronger. At times the only way I got across was by holding hands with two of the four men, never venturing into the middle alone. But by then we'd been through so much nothing could stop us. The streams were no more than a joke to be laughed at, while the eight-hour ordeal that had just passed seemed days distant. We'd even forgotten the two men we'd left in the snow. I remembered them, though...