Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members. Volpe himself has yet to explain just what the benefit of such a reduction would be. It would not change the power structure of the legislature; and since so little time is spent in debate, it would not hasten the business of the House. The only possible effect it would have would be to create unequal apportionment...
...phenomenon arises when the last rays of sunlight before totality gleam through the valleys and depressions of the mountainous lunar surface, creating, in effect, a "perforated" ring of sunlight about the edge of the moon. By accurately timing the event, the experimenters plan to collate more precise measurements of the moon's diameter...
Consistorial Congregation, which in turn would have passed it on to the apostolic delegate in Washington and thence to Mclntyre for comment and action. In effect, Mclntyre, the accused, became legal judge of his accuser...
...Forum was a head-spinning comedy of erotic errors in which three men and two women paired off in most of the possible permutations. A direct director could have reduced complexity to clarity; but Director Lester, with his scatty continuity and wham-bam camerantics, has about the same effect on this picture as a dachshund puppy might have on a game of chess...
Richard Harris plays Rafer Hoxworth, an old flame of Miss Andrews, with an enthusiasm that can only be traced to a probable conviction that he was acting in another movie. Although he appears frequently, at one time arriving with a complete New England house boxed and numbered, his effect on the central action is non-existent. Trumbo and Taradash obviously intended Hoxworth to pump some life into the sorry mess, but he remains curiously unaffecting and eerily unaffected. When the tide flows out after 20-some-odd years (how did they ever manage to squeeze it all into three...