Word: consents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perfectly all right for me to imagine a twelve-year-old Lolita. She only existed in my head. But to make a real twelve-year-old girl play such a part would be sinful and immoral, and I will never consent...
Among the "classics" canonized in Confessions of a Cultist are Aldrich's Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns, Hitchcock's The Birds, Preminger's Advise and Consent. All are auteur genre items; Sarris rarely has the flexibility of such British auteurists as Raymond Durgnat to admit that non-auteurs can produce great films. Each has raw narrative material of questionable significance, and a blatant commercial bent which made the few respectable critics feel rotten and cheated the morning after, unless trash was all they expected...
...questioned, too, whether Harvard had made a commitment to the Roxbury Tenants of Harvard that no development would proceed without the consent of the community, and whether the AHC plans would be discussed with the community...
Where laws exist, many statutes permit politicians to make superficial disclosures. Each candidate for the Senate and House is required by federal law to list funds received and spent "by him or by any person for him with his knowledge or consent." Taking pains not to have knowledge or give consent (by leaving fiscal matters to specially created committees) enables big spenders quite honestly to have nothing to report. Hidden coststhe loan of a secretary from a business executive, the use of a corporate plane, access to computersare seldom disclosed...
...Commission conceded, however, that the effect of pornography on children could be damaging. It urged legislative regulations on "the sale of sexual materials to young persons who do not have the consent of their parents" to prevent the problem...