Word: benignly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story of a child prostitute in New Orleans during World War I, and no film maker is better equipped to tell that story than Malle. As he demonstrated in Murmur of the Heart and Lacombe, Lucien, this great French director has a deep understanding of the process by which benign children change into corrupt adults. Like his old New Wave colleague, François Truffaut, he also has the ability to portray children on-screen without condescension or sentimentality. These talents are evident in Pretty Baby; yet the movie does not work. Even though Malle has approached his film...
More chilling than the vision of a pushbutton life was your litany of the "benign" influence of new-generation computers. Mindless worship of faster-and-easier is the product of programmed thinking. The computers are proud...
Richard Lester, who collaborated with Fraser on The Three Musketeers. The chore has fallen instead to Richard Fleischer, who possibly took on this benign project as penance for giving the world Mandingo. Fleischer has staged the film's many chase scenes and sword fights in his characteristically witless manner, but at least he keeps the narrative rolling noisily along. He also makes the most of his mishmash of a cast. Rex Harrison (as the Duke of Norfolk) and Oliver Reed (as Miles Hendon) are endearing good guys; George C. Scott's dry impersonation of a vagabond king...
Haldeman portrays himself as continually giving "active encouragement" to the "good" side of Nixon and treating the "bad" side with "benign neglect." As chief of staff, Haldeman says, he often ignored "petty, vindictive" orders from Nixon (such as one to give mass lie detector tests to employees of the State Department as a means of finding security leaks). Haldeman now regrets that he did not challenge Nixon more "frontally" to check his dark impulses. But he also notes wryly that other Nixon associates who had done so, including HEW Secretary Robert Finch and Communications Director Herbert Klein, quickly lost influence...
...computer's benign influence extends to the handicapped. The tremendously arduous process of turning print into Braille for the blind has become a relatively simple mechanical routine. In April, Telesensory Systems Inc., of Palo Alto, Calif., will start marketing a game center consisting of eight games for the unsighted; oscillating tones will replace the screen markings for contests like paddle ball; and synthesized speech will be used for other games such as tic-tac-toe, blackjack and skeet shoot...