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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...director are sometimes too determined to make it seem as comfortable as possible. The script occasionally ladles warm chicken soup over situations where a spritz in the face would be more appropriate. There are times when Actor Richard Benjamin, making his debut as a feature-film director, is too content with a scene's obvious values to find a handle to twist the comedy tighter...
Reagan's pronouncements on the pipeline have been inappropriate and ill-conceived, in both style and substance. Certainly the Administration is entitled to voice its strong disapproval of the project and attempt to dissuade the allies from participating--for instance, at the Versailles summit. But there, Reagan was content to grandstand unity and deliver the sanctions announcement once he got home--a clear insult to European officials caught unawares...
...years the West Coast had to be content with stale news from tapes that were hours old. Now CNN delivers news with old-fashioned objective reporting. It makes no attempt to preform viewers' opinions, as the networks do. It permits us to form our own. This may be the greatest contribution that could be made to the electronic news industry...
...successful careers in both milieus (the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lehman Brothers), has distilled from the darker lunacies of these worlds a novel of crackling humor and mordant observation. Its bigger-than-Barron 's protagonist is Oilman Buford ("Bubber") Gudge IV, who has been content to nurse his multibillion-dollar fortune in the Texas Panhandle until lust and vengeance propel him forth like a plague of pissants...
...Textbook content shall promote citizenship and the understanding of the free-enterprise system, emphasize patriotism and respect for recognized authority . . . Textbook content shall not encourage lifestyles deviating from generally accepted standards of society. -Proclamation of the Texas state board of education...