Word: drop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ignores them. Many, the very good and the very bad, force or insinuate themselves into the imagination. Even a reluctant viewer cannot quite resist the euphoria induced by airline ads that waft him up up and away, or travel spots, island-hopping in a wink of quick cuts, that drop him on a sun-splashed beach. Even while grumbling, he marvels at the dexterity, not to say ludicrous imagery, of a white tornado suddenly swirling through an untidy kitchen. He wakes up singing "You can take Salem out of the country, BUT . . ." His kids, riding shotgun on the shopping cart...
...Warren era? civil rights, reapportionment and criminal justice? have largely been decided and the decisions are largely irreversible. "The work of the Warren era is finished," Fortas said last week. "It's done? magnificently. It was the greatest era of court history since John Marshall, and perhaps one can drop that qualification...
...rather than lose the clients, he paid the fines himself. It was as a city councilman in 1941 that Thornberry first showed his clear commitment to civil rights by fighting to keep two new subdivisions at the edge of Austin from becoming parts of the city unless they dropped clauses barring Jews from living there. Though there was scant political profit in his position, Thornberry helped persuade both to drop the clauses...
...filled with echoes of the old mas ter's style: long, slow tracking shots, comic functionaries, vibrant, stinging music. But for the most part, Truffaut is, happily, himself. Even Hitchcock could not stretch so many individual scenes to the limit-and still give them the tensile strength of drop-forged steel. Nor has he the almost Proustian ability to recapture the past in a skein of memories and desires. In its avoidance of a major theme, The Bride Wore Black opts for the minor genre of suspense; but within those bounds it is very nearly a masterpiece...
...astonishing 10%. Symbolizing that performance, the Deutsche mark today ranks as the most stable currency in the inflation-beset industrial world. The mark's domestic purchasing power has declined by a comparatively modest 36% in 20 years. Second-best performer: the U.S. dollar, with a 41% drop in buying power over the same period...