Word: confessionally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus disputes have long been resolved outside the courtroom. Under the Communists, community and factory mediation committees have handled small matters, like bicycle collisions or family squabbles. The emphasis is on conciliation and confession, sometimes extracted at "struggle sessions" between the offender and his neighbors or coworkers. More serious crimes...
How is it that the movie fails to engage us? There is the well-realized meeting between two curious and disparate minds. Added to this is a sweet courtship and real marriage between Field and a gas station attendant (Beau Bridges), a man with few brains but good, patient instincts...
But it's not enough. Even an actor as powerful as Scott cannot make up for the paucity of invention. And the frantic action of the conclusion seems more confession of failure than release of pent-up emotion. Sensational though Hardcore is, unblinking as it is in examining a...
By now, after more than a week of excavations, only a shell of Gacy's house remains-just the outside walls, roof and some support beams. "We are looking for any scrap of evidence-a ring, a belt buckle, a button-that will help us to identify the victims...
In the right hands, English is a precision instrument. And, like all such devices, it is alternately blunted and sharpened by its users. In 1978, many nicks and abrasions came from Washington. Ernest Boyer, U.S. Commissioner of Education, admitted that he had been faking it: he actually pretended to understand...