Word: dampener
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Huston's direction has created a remarkably realistic film about people caught in a web of self-deception and defeat. Unfortunately the audience never becomes totally immersed in this world. Despite the thoughtful porrayal of virtually every major and minor character, weaknesses in the development of the plot dampen the overall impact of the picture...
Nixon's speech was carefully calculated to dampen any irrational euphoria over the new Washington-Moscow detente. "The threat of war has not been eliminated," Nixon cautioned. "It has been reduced." Appealing to Congress to endorse the agreements signed in Moscow, he added: "Never has there been a time when hope was more justified or when complacency was more dangerous. We can seize this moment or we can lose it." Nixon was, rightly, most intent upon saving the treaty limiting anti-ballistic systems and the agreement freezing the deployment of offensive nuclear weapons...
...rained on nearly all of Her Majesty's parades ("The Queen's weather," mused Le Monde), but the drizzle failed to dampen the French welcome. "Bigger crowds for the Queen than for the referendum on Europe," observed the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchai=îné. Elizabeth's French, several reporters noted, was far better than Prime Minister Edward Heath's, and one columnist confided to his readers the great discovery that "the Queen likes all French food except oysters...
...best troops. The South Vietnamese have admitted to heavy casualties: 4,610 dead and 14,093 wounded. U.S. military men hope that, with unstinting American air support and Nixon's morale-boosting moves, ARVN can hold up at least through May, when monsoon rains are expected to dampen the action in the southern two-thirds of the country...
...Wallace before should return to the Democratic fold. He has also lost support from the Democratic machines of the South. Lester Maddox and John Bell Williams have been replaced by more moderate leaders anxious to break the region out of its isolation (TIME, May 31). Yet the drawbacks neither dampen Wallace's enthusiasm for another campaign nor undermine his basic goal. He does not really expect to become President-just to keep forcing Southern strategies on anyone who wants to occupy the White House...