Word: bit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...experience learned to equate resignations with cover-ups, Vellucci might have lost badly-needed votes by his seeming reluctance to ride out the storm. But if the post-Watergate political mentality costs the mayor some support, his grasp of conventional political wisdom will probably save him quite a bit more--by resigning early in the game, Vellucci undoubtedly kept the bad publicity from getting out of hand, and prevented his trial in the press. Give the voters a month or two to forget, the reasoning goes, and even the worst publicity will fade away...
...tribe in Vancouver, B.C., to re-enact the story of a quest for a vision and its results in the time before the Indians had been assimilated into white culture. From the anthropological standpoint this film is invaluable. From the cinematic stabdpoint, the framing, lighting, and composition are every bit as classic as the stills of the period which Curtis is more famous for. The film has the added excitement of light and water leaks apparently left from the original footage...
...ghettoes of Cleveland, Dayton, Akron, and Detroit, from the Chevrolet assembly lines and the Goodyear rubber plants. They will pour out in their new cars, filled with their new children, to show off in front of family and old high school friends, to make the narrow mountain roads a bit more dangerous for a few days. Union Dues captures this spirit; Sayles knows, as they do, deep down, that they are interlopers almost anywhere except the hills. As for most of us, beneath their restlessness and urge to roam is the desire to come back home...
...Administration officials, who are as insistent on the need for investment as any businessman, would prefer an increase of 10% or more. That is essential to the Administration's economic strategy. At the moment, the economy is growing satisfactorily; real gross national product is expected to rise a bit more than 5% this year and about 4.5% in 1978. Though that is not enough to cut into the unemployment rate, which has been stuck at around 7% for the past six months, it has sent to an alltime high the number of people who do have jobs...
...every schoolboy knows, writer's block is an affliction every bit as debilitating as ... (Well, as what? Maybe a cup of coffee will help...