Word: bit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minority government." The blame, he implied, lay with the winter of strikes and labor unrest that had set the national mood for the Tory victory. He concluded with a call for unity: "Let's avoid party-bashing among each other. Let's have a bit of Tory-bashing for a change." The plea drew a tepid response...
...tone with the rest of the film. A bedtime discussion between Moore and Andrews about just what he means by the term "broad" establishes Edwards' credentials as a feminist, but does not contribute much to the gaiety of nations. There are some boozy barroom dissertations that are every bit as entertaining on film as they are in real life...
Though the greenback strengthened a bit late last week as the markets anticipated new dollar defense moves, worry remains deep about the future of the monetary system that helped create the world's postwar prosperity. The central problem is the roughly 1 trillion footloose dollars that slosh around banks and currency markets outside the U.S. For many years during the 1950s and 1960s, Europeans complained about a "dollar gap." Greenbacks were the only currency that was accepted everywhere, though there were not enough of them around to finance world trade and development. But the dollar gap has since become...
...pass defense broke down just a bit," Restic said. "We had some mental lapses that led to receivers being wide open." This was also borne out by statistics that showed the Crimson giving up 267 yards in the air although the big Red's completion percentage (ten for 24) was not all that impressive...
Most of the cast is competent but uninspired, and clearly a bit confused about how to interpret the play. Kirsten Giroux's Goneril is a shallow, cold bitch-queen; Janet Rodger's Regan a bit more of a bitchy housewife. Henry Woronicz's Edmund swaggers like a comic hero, an illegitimate Petruchio. Harold Levine's Cornwall is a snivelling rat of a villain, more disgusting than threatening...