Word: contente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cousin, Cousine, Jean-Charles Tacchella's new romantic comedy. Throughout the movie, various inter-family assemblages, from funerals to Christmas eve parties, act as catalysts for, among other things, adultery, sex education, fist-fights, and, most important, the affair between two cousins that makes up the film's romantic content. The tone is consistently ebullient, the acting good and a few of the scenes are hilarious. But I think the critical raves this movie has garnered are all out of proportion to the small, if genuine, pleasures actually to be found...
...booters refused to be content with only three goals, and in the next 10 minutes Acorn just barely missed two more scoring bids, one a weak dribble that got past the goalie but missed...
...Governor again in 1970, won that election, and two years later began planning his presidential campaign. He was no longer plagued by doubts. His gubernatorial victory and spiritual rebirth gave him the fortification he needed to storm the twin citadels of Washington and the "special interests." He was content that what he was doing was not inherently sinful-indeed, that it probably met with God's approval...
...reported on the mission's progress to Britain's Prime Minister Callaghan and Foreign Secretary Anthony Crosland. Publicly, Kissinger was anxious to give the British full credit for the present Rhodesian proposal; privately, he was aware that the British, having got burned over Rhodesia before, would be content to let the U.S. take the responsibility if a last-minute hitch should develop. At a press conference, Kissinger was asked what would happen if the Rhodesian problem should be turned over to Britain, as the de jure colonial power, and then fell apart. "We'll get the blame...
...call themselves conservative, and liberalism has become the sin that dares not speak its name. The September issue of Commentary in a symposium called "What Is a Liberal-Who Is a Conservative?" provides a useful guide to the semantic bedlam. Most of the 64 contributing intellectuals were once content to call themselves liberal. Now they fastidiously invoke qualifiers. They speak of early and late liberals, paleoliberals, center extremists, tough-minded liberals, of "rad-libs" and "trad-libs...