Word: better
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would be a better candidate for the U.N. Ambassador than Sammy Davis Jr.? He's black, Jewish and personable...
...second day of the S.C.O.R.E. (student competitions on relevant engineering), an "energy-efficient vehicle competition." Thirty-four cars from 28 different colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada are on hand. If they do not have a better idea, who does...
John le Carré could scarcely have plotted it better...
...principles, Nixon says, but a man who also has "street smarts" and "can play every trick ... We want him skillful, shrewd and as tough in the clutch as the other guy. The presidents of the top 50 or so corporations in the United States might be more intelligent, smoother, better poker players, have better manners, but there are no more than two or three of them I would want in a room with a healthy Brezhnev. But I do know some labor leaders I would put in there...
...cousins. Both films suffer from an excess of piety, a shortage of humor and an infatuation with desert vistas. Still, DeMille's muscular, campy Moses (Charlton Heston) is a hell of a lot more fun than Brook's wimpy, self-effacing Gurdjieff (Dragan Maksimovic). Human saintliness plays better on the big screen when it is accompanied by thunder and lightning. Brook's film is based on the mystic's autobiography. The tale begins in a small town on the Russian-Turkish border where Gurdjieff grew up. From there, the young seeker begins a series of exotic...