Word: broads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BONS DEBARRAS easily could have emerged from the studio ugly, depressing, and boring. Instead, director Mankiewicz has fashioned a film of lyrical and penetrating beauty. His diverse, lovely palette of lights and shades, broad afternoons and black nights, breathes freshness into every shot of a limited setting. His magnificent cast infuses humdrum, rather sad low-lifers with humor and elegance. Set in the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec and filmed in late fall and early winter, Les Bons Debarras (Good Riddance) possesses a certain steamily frosty quality, like the view through a window breathed on in January...
...maneuvering or expressing their own viewpoints; they are bound delegates. "Would it not be better if we had a system that would draw in women and minority delegates because each had an intellectual and political contribution to make, rather than because the party wants superficial proof that it is broad and fair?" More independence for the delegates would also revive the importance of the national convention, which Sanford describes as a "consensus-building instrument that is crucial to our effective self-government." This, in turn, is likely to produce better nominees. Democratic government can be destroyed, writes Sanford...
...always used trade to further political ends; the most recent example of this was the partial embargo on grain shipments to the Soviet Union after its invasion of Afghanistan. But there has never been a blanket declaration in advance of such a policy on so broad a scale. President Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander Haig support the concept of linkage. But trade veterans decry it as naive. Says one former Carter trade official: "Brock wouldn't advocate such a policy if he had more time on the job." The "anti-linkage" argument is that trade cannot be turned...
When the broadcast ended, amid loud cheering from the whole crew, CBS patriarchs Bill Leonard and Bill Paley ambled in with broad smiles, joking. "Allright . . . once again from the top for the West Coast...
...broad strategic issues raised by Soviet imperialism are the fundamental reality that Arab-Israeli disputes must be related to. An exclusive preoccupation with the Arab-Israeli dispute would not remove overriding strategic dangers that those of us who share common values -Arab and Jew, and America and other Western nations-have got to confront...