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...Chevy Chase movie, as were his past star vehicles with dwarves and dogs and the like. If Chase lacks a distinctive comic persona, his schlep routine served him well as the cause of his success. But it has also revealed his limitations as an actor. When Chase's characters conform well to his klutzy-but-optimistic comic routine--as with the memorable Gerald Ford satires in the first years of the Not For Prime Time Players--he is a very funny man. But when Chevy has to be himself, the result is merely tedium, as has been the case with...
...important of last week's rulings involved an ordinance passed by the city council of Akron, Ohio, which has served as a national model for antiabortion legislation. Its requirement that abortions after the first three months, or trimester, of a pregnancy be performed in a hospital seemed to conform to the Roe vs. Wade ruling that the state can make regulations that are "reasonably related" to the health of the woman after the first trimester. But the court, citing advances in medical technology, ruled that the abortion method known as dilatation and evacuation "may be performed safely...
...biblical writers see man's role not merely to conform to nature but to improve it, if possible," Siegel argues. For that reason, "genetic research should be encouraged, not met with cries of alarm...
...INSTANCE only does Davies' characterization disappoint. Maria is half-Gypsy, a fact which she conceals partly out of a fear of making herself interesting in a cheap way, but also because her garlicky, long-skirted mother does not conform to her self-image, her need for smooth modernity and rationality. Maria's ostensible embarrassment over her heritage is a dirty trick to play. She is too finely tuned to admit this sort of flaw blithely; by nature a vivid personality. She must and does go to great lengths to avoid trite melodrama. The words she utters...
...least one purpose of the Byzantine contra command structure is to allow U.S. military and intelligence personnel to conform with a rider attached to the 1983 Defense Department appropriations bill, passed unanimously by the House of Representatives last December. It forbids the Administration to use funds for "military equipment, military training or advice, or other support for military activities, to any group or individual, not part of a country's armed forces, for the purpose of overthrowing the government of Nicaragua or provoking a military exchange between Nicaragua and Honduras...