Word: defectives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...general very good. Peter Wright has successfully avoided playing Berenger as a pathetic little idealist who has somehow wandered into an Ionesco play and gives him dignity beneath the sloth. His sleepy Yogi the Bear voice is highly suited for the role and very appealing. The only defect of his performance is that he doesn't seem changed enough and truly defiant in the end. His defiance may be a joke to the audience but it cannot be a joke to himself...
What he makes of them will depend, as it always has with Scott, on whether he can confine his explosive energies to the discipline of acting. Always aware of the past that has scarred him, he says now: "My violent behavior is some sort of aberration, a character defect I'm not particularly proud of." Struggling to temper what he calls "my terrible fire," he remains acutely aware that he is still in danger of being consumed by the flames. From his view in the tenth row, Scott can also see that this is a risk that a great actor...
...Responsibility for environmental and consumer safeguards. GM continued to show why such confidence is wrongly given when this December it had to be ordered by the Department of Transportation (with a little help from Ralph Nader) to notify the 250,000 owners of GM and Chevy pick-ups of defective wheel dises in 1960-65 models. GM throughout has maintained that the defect did not exist...
...realized that the Lithuanian was a genuine defector, was loath to return him, and did so under direct order from Admiral Ellis. While in radio contact with Captain Brown, Eustis said: "I have talked a great deal with the individual . . . I believe he is sincere in his intention to defect to this country. The defector is definitely in fear of his life. At this time, indications are that regardless of what we do, he will go over the side [if we hand him back] as soon as we depart this area...
...love and death in a New England barn, and has sold more than 800,000 hardback copies. Charlotte succeeded in making a small, confused pig-of-good-will and a humane spider touching and unforgettable. Trumpet somewhat less successfully attempts the Bildungsroman of a trumpeter swan with a speech defect. As a cygnet, young Louis has to be furnished with a store-bought trumpet, and soon tootles his way into many hearts and places. White's main achievement, though, is Louis' father, a cultivated cob who talks a brand of rhetoric such as might come of an alliance...