Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tangled up in some embarrassing place in between. At first this big budget, soft-core, high-class porn flick seems to be just a confused attempt to rival Last Tango in Paris as a sophisticated X. rated movie--that the ads promise "will change the meaning of X." Not content with just visual eroticism, director Just Jaeckin tries to convince us that he's making a serious philosophical statement on human sensuality. He fails not so much because he lack the originality and the wit of a director like Bertolucci but because his effort is transparently insincere. His plot...
Jaeckin knows that pornography is supposed to be made from the common fantasies of the audience, so he tries to throw in a little something for everyone. Yet he's also so worried about making some kind of directorial comment that he isn't content with just creating fantasy--he fusses with it so much that the end product is often confusing and unintentionally funny. Marie-Ange, a beautiful child of about sixteen, is sitting on the porch talking with Emmanuelle--they're both swinging lazily in hanging wicker seats--about the evils of sexual repression. As a demonstration...
...Coop amendment ballot which members have recently received should be understood for what it is: a blatant attempt on the part of certain Law and Business School professors, incumbent Coop officers, to perpetuate their tenure. Not content with making the nominating procedure for non-student directors so arduous that of the several submitted petitions only one has ever been accepted, they now proceed to the ultimate solution: abandoning free elections altogether. Nothing could be more contrary to the spirit of cooperative enterprise than to consign the representation of 35,000 non-student members to a self-perpetuating group...
Senate Democrats also readied an energy program they will offer as an alternative to Ford's. It takes a more cautious approach. While the President seeks an immediate cut in oil imports to safeguard the nation in case of another Arab embargo, the Democrats are content with a more gradual reduction in foreign oil over the long run. They oppose Ford's scheme to reduce consumption by raising the price of oil because it would be a drag on an already sagging economy. Says a Senate staffer who specializes in energy: "There is no need for a sudden...
Tiger Snarls. Not content with the routine ("Jim Jones is not at home. At the signal, please leave your name, number and message. Beep"), increasing numbers of Americans are loading their telephone answering devices with creative and amusing greetings, often in verse and music. Electronic answering has become not only a fad but something of an art form...