Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THERE ARE TIMES, of course, when story selection does not involve such clear-cut moral issues. Then the paper must often choose between stories of approximately equal "newsworthiness," weighing in such factors as audience appeal. In our case, we take into consideration the fact that the Summer School does not comprise our entire audience, although it does make up a considerable portion of the readership. For that reason we attempt to balance our news coverage between several areas of interest. And, it would appear, it is for this reason that today marks the debut of Summer Times...
...Attorney General John Mitchell, we have Crispin Stewart, a powerful Pennsylvania senator with Presidential ambitions. The Mitchells' young daughter, Martha, has been turned into Alice, a grade school science teacher in her 20s. The last character in the play, Dave Castle, is the senator's cool, climbing, clean-cut legal aide, not too unlike John Dean...
...long hair he dragged through those Nixon war upheaval years, and his tie dye shirts are fading in the closet, but Carlin still feels a little bit of the rebel in him. Carlin swore out at the world through his albums when they first started selling (he has now cut six); but in 1978, almost everyone has heard his "Seven Words" and his more innocuous skits on the Johnny Carson show...
Shcharansky's widespread contacts with foreign journalists proved to be his downfall. Anxious to cut off the dissidents' opportunities of gaining publicity for their cause in the West, the Soviets arrested Toth on a Moscow street last June as a Soviet scientist handed him a paper on a seemingly harmless topic, parapsychology. During four menacing interrogations, Toth was repeatedly asked about his meetings with Shcharansky; he strongly denied receiving any sensitive scientific material from Shcharansky. Before his release from prison, Toth was obliged to sign a protocol, or transcript of his interrogation, whose accuracy he could not verify because...
...conviction with which the movie has been made. Except for a chaotic and enervating final 20 minutes, this film runs on its naive energy. Director Steve Rash milks every corny moment without being brazenly manipulative, and he bathes every shot in oldtime Technicolor glamour. His best scenes actually cut to the meaning of Holly's career...