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...Romney's main political drawback is his self-righteousness. Any midwestern Puritan with inflexible religious convictions and a strong ego would be hard to stomach at times. Romney does not consider himself a politician and has belittled legislators who vote on party lines rather than on "what's right." Romney thinks he is right, and he needs to be right. His indecision on the major issues is more than political necessity; a fear of ever being wrong is ingrained deeply within...
Director James Hill does what he can to keep this misfortune cookie from crumbling, but the film's main failing is the drawback to most Oriental fare. Two hours afterward, the viewer is likely to be hungry for another movie...
Quarry on Mars. There are, however, some distinct limitations on the capabilities of Bradley's mechanical man. Beyond about 30,000 miles, admits the imaginative engineer, round-trip time delay in the transmission and receipt of telemetry signals becomes a distinct drawback. "Realtime" human activity is impossible. If a telefactor operating on the surface of Mars were to spot a Martian running by, for example, its TV picture-traveling at the speed of light (186,000 miles per sec.)-would take about three minutes to reach the headset of its controller when Mars is closest to earth. Even...
...strongly. Nixon, by contrast, seems an all-too-familiar fixture, a candidate who has not won an election since 1956. He knows the track-perhaps a little better than he should. Asked about the presidential prospects of the party's bright new men, Javits said their chief drawback was that "they haven't been out on the track yet." Nixon's problem was the opposite. Likening him to a race horse, Javits said, "Well, they don't run them till they're two years old, and they rarely run them after they're six or seven." Moreover...
...probably took him about a month. And everyone at the Brattle had fun watching it, except the people in front of me, who left around two-thirds of the way through. They probably got a little bored of all the glaring Sensitivity versus Cybernetics. And that is a drawback of course. You can easily get bored about that time. But Godard pulls...