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...more, Carter has grave weaknesses. Caddell insists that most voters still give the President high personal ratings, viewing him as honest, trustworthy, hardworking, "overall a good and decent man. That is very critical to the electorate." But he grants that many of the same voters take such a dim view of Carter's competence and job performance that "you would think they were talking about two totally separate people...
...confederates and apparatus. She specialized, rather charmingly, in the invisible mending of broken crock ery and in small gifts and chatty letters from a society of superhuman Masters who dwelt in Tibet. She was a gifted hyp notist of herself and others. When pressed, and if the lights were dim, she could pro duce spectral figures...
...long-term prognosis for the tiny automaker is dim. Although it has specialized in small cars for more than 25 years, "AMC has never had the capital to design autos that were technologically competitive. Today it has just 1.7% of the U.S. market. AMC's only new models this year are the Renault 181, which it is importing from France, and a four-wheel-drive subcompact. By 1982 AMC may be phasing out the existing subcompact Spirit and compact Concord, leaving it with a Renault-designed small car to be built at its only surviving passenger car plant...
...labored to assure the ruling class that life was indeed worth living. For two centuries this way of life flourished, only to fall victim to war, inflation and the refusal of the lower orders to go on tugging their forelocks. There are a few survivors who still remember the dim and faded glory of the English country house, but for most of us this book of photographs will have to do. In fact, it does very nicely, with just enough text by Author Christopher Simon Sykes to explain the pictures but not enough to smother them with sociology...
...best thing about this film is that it has the courage of its own pretentiousness. This may seem dim praise, but it is not. The Stunt Man is not so much sophomoric, with its implications of false sophistication, as it is freshmanic: the movie delights in the play of ideas and in its own unsuspected ability to play fast, loose and funny with them. It is refreshing to see a movie that sends ideas instead of autos crashing headon...