Word: discontentedness
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With such high stakes in the balance, discontented producers like Michael Laughlin feel little confidence that their suits will succeed. "You just can't deal with Aubrey," he says. "He realizes that litigation can be a great expense, and that because of legal delays the film will have disappeared...
Ali shifted gears smoothly in addressing himself to his topic, "The Purpose of Life," a subject chosen because of its universal relevance and treated it more as a dynamic than as a dialectic. The premise of his 35 minute lecture was that "every intelligent person comes to a stage in...
Poor Man's Paradise. The secret of Mao's China can perhaps be summed up in an old Chinese saying: "The contented man, though poor, is happy; the discontented man, though rich, is sad." One reason why the average Chinese appears happy is that the wide disparities of...
Highway Robbery. For automakers, 1970 was the toughest year in at least a decade. Buyers spurned big models in favor of less profitable compacts, minicars and fast-increasing imports (now 15% of the U.S. domestic market). Restive dealers grumbled over what they considered to be excessive factory control, reductions in...
Heavy Breathing. But Lean has opted for bombast rather than character development, scope instead of dramatic tension. The time is 1916, and Britain's thin red line of empire is being besieged on two sides by the Boches and the Irish Republican Army. Rosy is a willful, discontented lass...