Word: broading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fight inflation than raising taxes, as Johnson proposes, but the fact is that Congress failed either to raise taxes or make an appreciable dent in spending. The Republicans tried, to be sure, but the only specific saving Dirksen would gloat over was foreign aid, the program with no broad lobby in this country. And when Ford attacked the "pretty bad record" of the 89th, he was forgetting the millions of voters benefiting from that Congress's historically significant output. The present Congress, while producing some good legislation, was far from a standout performer during its first session...
...complete Committee report will not be made public until the National Security Council announces its final decisions. It was previously reported--and confirmed today--that the Committee recommended deferments in four broad areas: "natural science, mathematics, engineering, and health." The "critical occupations list" is not yet known...
Fisher first arrived in Anguilla for the 4th of July weekend, when the island, to show its liking for the United States, made American independence day an Anguillian holiday. The two broad tasks lying before Fisher were to reduce the possibility of a military invasion by St. Kitts and to gain whatever minimal recognition and assistance Anguilla required to survive. Toward both ends, Fisher drafted a one-page constitution, specifying at the end that Anguilla was not to return to its association with St. Kitts unless a plebiscite so directed...
Chandler favors loud colors, even garish ones, and sometimes employs intentionally rough and unsubtle comic-strip techniques. His broad-stroke work often recalls Rouault. He himself especially admires and acknowledges the influence of Picasso, Rivera, Braque, Beckmann, Buffet, and the Negro muralist Charles White...
What How I Won The War proves is that a serious anti-war movie cannot be told in the same cacciatore style that works so well with the Beatles or Zero Mostel in a toga. Of the welter of punches Lester aims at his broad target, only a few can land with appreciable force. The rest necessarily have to deflect off each other, mutually weakening themselves. When John Lennon, in his non-Beatle debut, dies, he dies in a realistic ugly field with realistic blood spewing from his abdomen. But he doesn't just die realistically. He sits there, observes...