Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...however, which comes as a surprise and disappointment, since his impersonations are often so uproariously funny, and the Oriental bit has, in the past, been one of his finest. Seller's acting may not be up to par, but more likely the material, not Seller's abilities, is to blame for this less than expected performance. Truman Capote, on the other hand, demonstrates absolutely no talent for acting--but then again not much acting is required for him to give a witless and repugnant parody of himself...
...gothic ruminations that began to infect Archer's thinking several novels ago. Even under the influence of his first love affair in years, the detective manages to toe the line between world-weariness and sentimentality. If The Blue Hammer does not rank with Macdonald's best, the blame can be laid partially to earlier successes. The author's formula has by now entered the public domain. Not only do his characters seem to know this-and to act out their parts according to the rules-but fans are likely to know who did what to whom pages...
...shocked by the high percentage of sexually unhappy couples," laments Caletti. "In other countries the right to sexual happiness has been fully sanctioned, but not here. Our own culture has not begun to deal with it." Caletti, who is married and has two children, puts much of the blame for the country's sexual debility on the overrated Italian male. "The Latin lover comes out of this pretty well beaten up," he says. "He is a bluff. In addition to his wife, a husband wants to possess a steady mistress and a few casual lovers too. The male...
...arts, widespread permissiveness, attacks on the family, dirty dress and speech, drugs, lack of manners, exotic and occult philosophies, these make up the kind of world we find ourselves in today. The Communists are partly responsible, but the American people must share a great deal of the blame...
...company.) Pittston said nothing, except that the disaster was an "act of God," although a Pittston lawyer told Ben Franklin of The New York Times that "in the long term, the responsibility rests with Pittston." But the people of Buffalo Creek, the survivors, knew where to affix the blame--it was God all right, they said: the Almighty Dollar...