Word: defectives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these considerable merits, the film ultimately disappoints. Its problem is an ending that abruptly transports the audience from heightened realism to broad satire. It is a defect that Slap Shot shares with the current hit Network?a desire to present an editorial so corrosive that aesthetics, questions of form and proportion simply dissolve. The Chiefs win the league championship on a fluke, when their last holdout against the brawling style flips out. Throughout, this out-of-place Ivy Leaguer has been nicely underplayed by Michael Ontkean. But in the denouement he is forced to go for a broader, cheaper kind...
...offense was the major defect. It could not penetrate the middle against many teams, and it was unable to play a controlled game. Too often the team lapsed into perimeter passing and settled for poor outside bombs...
...solution, however, is not to preserve existing programs as a form of corporate welfare--and by doing so preserve a structural defect in the American economy--but to judge them on their merits and to deal separately with the adverse economic consequences that might arise in the event of reductions. The justification of Pentagon programs on economic grounds is a sham--it panders to the economic sectors least in need of government aid; those who would lose jobs if the Vought plant in Dallas closed are likely to find jobs more easily than the permanently unemployed of the Dallas ghetto...
...turn down. But too many M.P.s of all parties resented the attempt to end the debate. Then the Tory shadow spokesman on devolution, Francis Pym, proposed an alternative-an all-party convention to discuss the whole devolution matter. The adroit Tory maneuver may have encouraged wavering Laborites to defect on the guillotine vote...
Women should defect en masse. Without women the church could propagate nothing...