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...piece of dotty, slightly paranoid intrigue. Three Days of the Condor promises little and keeps its word. It is hard to get indignant about it, or enthusiastic either. There is no clear compliment the movie can be paid without an immediate qualification: it is smooth but forgettable, bearable but brainless. The film has nothing novel to say and nothing to offer except Robert Redford. But the way things work in Hollywood these days, Redford is enough...
American Catholics, Jadot observes, now rely less on formularized doctrine, but show "a deepening of faith." Even among the left and right extremists in the church, he perceives that "there is always something good in what they want." Returning the compliment, conservative and liberal Catholics show a rare unity in their warm approval of the man from the Vatican...
...Answer. The harrowing ordeal for Sam-and the painful suspense for his family-began shortly after he and his father had enjoyed a quiet, late, candlelit dinner at the Yorktown home on Friday night, Aug. 8. Sam stepped into the kitchen to compliment the cook on the meal, then left about 11:30 p.m., driving away in his green 1973 BMW sedan. He told his father that he might visit some friends...
...great "Love Supreme," and right after the ending of that piece's first movement the disc jockey did a fade-in to Sanders's "Upper Egypt." It was one of the few times when you could not tell the difference between Trane's horn and another's. The highest compliment...
...political as well as economic liberty, and now and then something of a deadpan Scottish wit. Much of The Wealth of Nations is unreadable today, but the browser comes across unexpected bits of phrasemaking-for example, the first description of England as "a nation of shopkeepers." It was no compliment; Smith complained that only such a nation could follow so mean-spirited a policy as Britain's colonial exploitation of its American colonies...