Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really can't blame Christopher Plummer for this modified Holmes. Playing himself makes a great deal of sense. He knows he is handsome and talented. He knows he has that charming scar on his lower lip, that little half-smile, that direct and demanding gaze. It's easy for him to be Christopher Plummer, and besides, he gets paid...
...however, blame directer Bob Clark and screenwriter John Hopkins. The script is entirely their creation, and has about as much in common with Arthur Conan Dyle's stories as Plummer has in common with Basil Rathbone. Both Rathbone and Plummer wear deerstalker hats and speak with upperclass vowels, and both Doyle's work and this script rely heavily on fog for dramatic effect. And that is where the resemblance ends...
...nobody answers the question of how states could balance their budgets without the billions of dollars in aid the federal government hands them each year. People know only that inflation hurts, and conservative economists and groups like the National Taxpayers Union tell them that federal deficit spending is to blame...
...outcome for the treaty vote: rumors last week had it that a few key Senators, notably Frank Church (D-Idaho), chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, will withold their support until they have carefully considered the complete treaty. In general, Congress seems willing to let Carter draw all the blame for foreign policy problems these days, and the Senate shows no inclination to help him out. As one Senate staffer stated Monday, "We don't want to say anything about SALT until we have to. For now, only Jimmy Carter knows what role the SALT II pact should play...
This position has outraged some feminists who think that the women's movement should focus on the abuses of male power rather than on what women do to each other. Says Feminist Author Judith Pildes Arcana: "The message is still the same−blame your mother, woman-negative." In her view, mother-daughter problems are really the result of the repressive roles forced on women by what she calls "patriarchial capitalism." Sociologist Pauline Bart has even accused Friday of trying to push her into a blame-Mother position during an interview for her book...