Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the Borbón line must not be interrupted. Commenting on the likelihood of Juan Carlos' elevation this week, Monarchist Mariano Robles, a lawyer and opponent of the Franco regime, declared: "It is suicide for the monarchy. It is the beginning of the end. A dictator cannot name a King. A King must succeed according to dynastic law. Otherwise it is not a monarchy, it is just a political game...
...futuristic coda comes as a letdown. It is too sketchy either as science fiction or as an ending to a novel whose main strength is its meticulous reading of psychic signals. The author's thesis is hardly novel, but it cannot be ignored: in a sick society, the roles of madness and sanity are reversed. This society is sick unto disaster, so alternatives must be sought in areas removed from what passes as reason. Lessing may be a flawed prophet, but as witness she is persuasive and disturbing...
Fourth, the newspaper handicapper cannot get any indication of the current condition of his selection by inspecting him in the paddock just before the race. A seriously washy or sore horse can usually be discounted from contention in a race...
Claude Chabrol's "La Muette" is a work as precise and beautiful as any of his features. Chabrol deliberately modified his style to suit the limitations of a 16mm camera and a stock whose grain texture cannot hold the details that commercial 35mm film can. Thus the frames do not have the astounding depth and dominance of background objects which we have come to associate with recent Chabrol. At the same time, however, the frames retain a three dimensional quality and a precise interaction of parts that has been the basis of all of Chabrol's work. Unlike Godard...
...cannot deal with a city-wide problem on an individual case-by-case basis. It is absolutely impossible for the board to initiate complaints in the hundreds of instance of major rent increases," he said...