Word: disdain
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While De Laurentiis' technicians pay lip service to the original special effects of Willis O'Brien, their disdain for the old stop-motion techniques is thinly disguised. It saddens me that many superb technicians of stop-motion animation have found it increasingly difficult to work. The rationale has been that the slow, painstaking process of frame-by-frame photography has grown prohibitively expensive...
...administration's behavior in resolving the strike itself has been deplorable, however. It has consistently shown its disdain for its employees by refusing to bargain with them in good faith, by rejecting even their lowest-level wage demands, and by simply refusing to negotiate until the union representing the 60 striking workers agreed in advance to accept the university wage offer. Because of administration's anti-union, anti-worker stance, the workers were forced to accept a wage settlement and back-to-work conditions considerably less favorable than those they had hoped for. Three months of picketing, with unprecedented student...
Director Stanley Kubrick has yet to show that he can actually direct actors--from a few of his films one gets the feeling he must treat them with the same disdain he harbors for the big bad world. Clockwork Orange (like Dr. Strangelove,) shines, though, because it accommodates both Kubrick's cerebral and perverse artsiness and a free-lance format for Malcolm MacDowell. MacDowell requires no coaching or handholding here; he does for amoral punkdom what the Bowery Boys never could. The union of these two visionary hard-guys still proves chilling, and no amount of humane breath could melt...
...when he was president of San Francisco State College. On the issues, he sounded more or less right wing and eccentric. Once he called for sending unarmed U.S. troops "who could be armed if necessary" to southern Africa under U.N. auspices to prevent a bloodbath there. He expressed open disdain for homosexuals and expressed misgivings about a California law prohibiting business collusion with the Arab boycott as an unwarranted interference with free enterprise. Among the more intriguing questions of the next few years: what the tradition-minded Senate will do to Hayakawa, and vice versa...
...more pertinent question is whether the press-in its cynicism, disdain and plague-on-both-your-houses impartiality-helped to trivialize the campaign and thus contributed to the public's turned-off mood. Looking back on many of the '"issues" that dominated the headlines-ethnic purity, the Playboy interview, Clarence Kelley's valances, the Eastern Europe gaffe, Ford's finances-it's hard to escape the feeling that the press coverage has a lot to answer for. In the pack mentality of campaign journalism, once some characteristic in a candidate is spotlighted-Carter...