Word: compeling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Consumers Union she will have to calm an internal dispute over whether the organization should concentrate more on product testing or advocacy. Pursuing the latter, it recently has filed lawsuits to compel the Government to improve product safety and reliability standards and to release the justification for price increases filed by major corporations with the Cost of Living Council. Speaking of the testing v. advocacy debate, Mrs. Karpatkin says: "Consumers Union has to do both." The courtroom, in her view, is one more test lab for buyers' rights...
...place far more stringent constraints on the White House). It should become law very quickly. The Senate gave industry some new mandates; it passed a bill that would force manufacturers within 15 months to paste "energy efficiency" labels on all major household appliances. Longer range, the Senate bill would compel automakers by 1984 to increase fuel economy by an average of 50% or more over that of 1974 models...
...Grimm illustrations brought Rackham, who died in 1939, his first great success. But he went on to do nearly everything from Scrooge to Cinderella, from The Sleeping Beauty to The Wind in the Willows. Rackham's gnarled giants, dark woods and pallid, feathery Edwardian maidens still compel-and the price of this new edition is commendably...
...vacuum of leadership. Debates lengthened and wandered from the issues at question, without the influential voice of a permanent dean to direct the discussions. Meanwhile attendance rose and fell erratically, occasionally dropping below the number necessary for a quorum. The low attendance became enough of a problem to compel the creation of rules requiring the presence at meetings of department chairmen, House masters and certain other faculty...
Given the care and the intensity lavished on this highly personal film, one would like to feel more strongly about the characters and their milieu. But even a talent as powerful as Scorsese's cannot compel that feeling, cannot force a stranger's entry into a closed and vicious circle. One leaves the film with the sense of having endured a class in social anthropology rather than an aesthetic experience. ·Richard Schickel