Word: broad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...language here outrages my sense of decency," said Adlow, Poppio suggested that "contemporary community standards" were not the opinions of one individual. "I consider myself a broad-minded fella," said Adlow, who is 71. "And, on the basis of a broad-minded fella's morals, I think Avatar is a filthy, illegal newspaper." Marshall Smith said last night that his stores would probably not sell Avatar until the case is decided in the higher courts. "It is unfair," Smith said, "to employees to expose them to this sort of prosecution. But I disagree vehemently with this decision...
...weak link among the major characters is Boanerges, a demagogue who barges into the cabinet as president of the Board of Trade. James Shuman lacks the heartiness and the broad, bumbling arrogance that should make Boanerges funny. Without him to play against, the rest of the cabinet--Dale Gieringer, Roy Goldfinger, Brain McGunigle, and Prentice Claflin seems a bit hollow...
With the President's popularity unprecedentedly low, a horde of fragmentary fringe groups emerged from the woodwork like teredos. The political spectrum is broad, if predominantly on the carmine side of the rainbow, covering Trotskyites and Maoists. New Politics and Black Power radicals, Moscow-oriented Communists and the Socialist Workers Party, to nonideological mothers, bishops, pacifists and hippies. "The only thing we agree on is that we are against the Viet Nam war," says a New York Upper East Side Leninist. "The rest of the time we're at each other's throats. It's like...
...dramatic program-ranging from Kabuki plays to slapstick to poetry reading-is broad enough to challenge the resources of any normal theatrical troupe. Yet none of the principal actors of the National Theater of the Deaf utters a word, and only one of them can hear. No matter; the pacing and performance are unmistakably professional, and the critical notices are in the rave category. Currently on a six-week tour of 18 Northeastern cities, the company opened at Manhattan's Hunter College Playhouse last week to tumultuous applause...
...participants with an implacable frenzy. Of his 14 novels, Far from the Madding Crowd, with its relatively happy ending, is probably the most adaptable to film-and, indeed, it went through two silent treatments. In this version, Screenwriter Frederic Raphael has managed to preserve the book's broad vision while clarifying its bucolic speech. His most valuable ally is Director John Schlesinger (Darling), who displays the best sense of Victorian time and place since David Lean in Great Expectations, alternating his stars with a brilliant cast of minor players who serve as a Greek chorus in tragicomic peasant roles...