Word: controlâ
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...personal life, Scott has often lost that control???with dramatic ferocity. When he is acting, he makes his rage work for him: it produces a consistent, overwhelming image of strength in all of the varied characters he so convincingly creates. And it is that projection of strength that makes so many of his parts almost tangible in a viewer's memory. Anyone who recalls one George C. Scott can easily see half a dozen: the unctuous gambler Bert Gordon in The Hustler; the slithering prosecutor in Anatomy of a Murder, squinting at witnesses through slit eyes like a starving mongoose...
...accepted. Few today would question Social Security retirement benefits; while Medicare had a troubled beginning, it helped establish the principle of national health insurance, which is now substantially backed by both Republicans and Democrats. Yet the whole vast structure remains patched, haphazard and almost impossible to grasp, let alone control???a disorganized welfare state within a state...
...declining years, by his mere presence. "He was the hoop that held the staves of the barrel in round," says Pike. "Now that hoop is gone." As a result, fissures are likely to appear more frequently. The aim will remain the same?unifying Viet Nam under Hanoi's control???but the five contenders are likely to differ on the means. Pike believes, for example, that they disagree on the major policy issue confronting Hanoi?how best to win the war in the South. Giap, Dong and Le Duan support the current policy: intensive guerrilla activity interspersed with conventional, regular-force...
...Manchurian railways except the Soviet-controlled Chinese Eastern are either openly Japanese-operated or under Japanese control?...
| 1 |