Word: cuts
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...space and Viet Nam to pressing domestic needs. Given the temper of Congress and the Nixon Administration, and the continuing costs of war, that shift is not likely to happen soon. The very success of Apollo 11 is an augury that the level of space spending may not be cut. The liberals seem out of tune with the majority of middle Americans-at least for now. Middle America does not seem discontented with the present ordering of national values. It elected Richard Nixon and strongly backs the U.S. space program...
...picketing drivers said that the students' support "had definitely helped the strike. Their leaflets cut business by half," he said. Another, one of the strike's organizers, said "We would have won anyway, but the support of the students has made everything go so much faster...
...unreconstructed form. Instead, it is subordinated to larger structural concerns, concerns which aim at focusing the viewer's several perspectives on contradictions the filmmaker considers important. Fearful that the message of implicit contradictions is too ambiguous for it to have any impact, he seeks clean cut dialectical movement through analysis...
ALSO IN A Stetson was Peter Lempert as the Spartan Herald. No doubt his comic ability was aided by a ludicruous eighteen-inch (one presumes, fake) erection, but he would have cut a convincingly ridiculous figure anyway. Cinesias, as a deprived husband, must be a pathetic combination of exasperation, desperation, fury, and, of course, horny as hell. John Pieters does a very convincing job; he brought back those golden high-school days of drive-in movies and cramps in the groin. And after the reconciliation, with Myrrhina chasing him, he gives a similarly convincing impression of exhaustion. Judith Wells' Myrrhina...
With the blending of arachaic and modern speech, the role of Lysistrata becomes much harder. She must be an intelligent, perceptive woman, a natural leader and clearly a cut above her fellow dames--but, on the other hand, one must not be shocked when she indulges in vulgarity for emphasis. Miss Allen succeeds admirably in making Lysistrata an authoritarian, and yet feminine, figure. That is why her finest line is her last, as she embraces the Commissioner and then demands, "Is that a pickle in your pocket--or are you glad...