Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very sad movie. Sad in miniscule degree because it tries to tell an unhappy story, but sad mainly because Chaplin's former greatness winks from behind the bathos just often enough to let us recognize an artist trapped by his own sentiment. The film would be easier to dismiss had a lesser man made it, but Chaplin, twenty years past his prime, keeps reminding us of his earlier films--not of the Little Tramp he used to play but of the range of emotion his skilled movements could bring forth and of the warmth in his eyes...
...very moment when the Philippine Supreme Court was considering a petition from a group of lawyers assailing the legality of the impending ratification. The justices seemed stunned by the action. Presumably, they were aware that one of the provisions of the new constitution is that Marcos may appoint and dismiss Supreme Court justices at will...
...national legislatures. Established in 1958, the Strasbourg assembly never has had any say over the EEC's budget, personnel or policies. All of these are controlled by the large bureaucratic machine in Brussels. The European Parliament's one real power is the right to censure or even dismiss the Common Market Commission, also in Brussels. The members have never used that power-in part because they have no authority to appoint a new commission; that privilege is reserved for the Council of Ministers, named by member governments...
...features alarums, excursions and enough flashing lightbulbs to make one wonder whether Shakespeare might have considered writing a script or two for Star Trek. In fact the new production seems unimpressed by all the play's melodramatic moments, eliminating a lot of them and embarrassing the rest. One might dismiss this as evidencing a pedantic belief that audiences don't like cheap thrills, were it not that Al Pacino, formerly of The Godfather and as Richard a properly menacing uncle, presumably knows better...
...nutritionists dismiss the organic-food cult as nonsense. Thomas Jukes, professor of medical physics at the University of California at Berkeley, says that "the movement is dangerous to the consumer because, by misrepresenting science, it brings about a mistrust of the entire food supply." Others see it as a harmless search for nutritional peace of mind...