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Rafelson and Scenarist Brackman understand their two played-out heroes without ever condescending to them, although both writer and director are often guilty of using the same kind of tin-ear dialogue and trite image that David himself might employ in one of his tortuous monologues. One of Rafelson's most certain talents is a nearly preternatural instinct for working with actors, and Nicholson and Dern give consummate performances. In such diverse parts as the bemused attorney in Easy Rider, the laborer and fugitive musician in Five Easy Pieces, the tomcat of Carnal Knowledge, Nicholson has already displayed remarkable...
Jackson is not afraid to employ several academic disciplines to help in an interpretation of the songs: however, this sometimes leads him to depart from his highly readable style and utilize instead highly technical language comprehensible only to the scholar. But as Jackson points out, no amount of sociological or musicological discussion could obscure the vivid portraits painted by the songs themselves...
...reveals that the Federal Reserve Bank is currently studying ways to spread ways to spread the burden of Harvard's enormous tax exemptions more equitably, while protecting the principle of tax exemptions for Massachusetts educational institutions. It promises greater access to Harvard facilities for Cambridge residents, increased efforts to employ minority personnel from the surrounding community, and further efforts to provide day care facilities in University buildings...
Nixon had watched the international monetary situation approach collapse for nearly a year before doing anything about it, McGovern charged, and when he did act it was to employ the "six-gun diplomacy of John Connally," thereby antagonizing U.S. allies. He had "insulted" Japan by not advising its leaders in advance of his trip to Peking and of the potential impact of his New Economic Policy. He had lost the good will of India by siding with Pakistan in their brief war, and he had waited five months to recognize "the infant, struggling nation of Bangladesh that has suffered...
...EEOC had no coercive power, so Steiner had to employ informal pressure to increase the pace of minority hiring in large concerns. He and his staff traveled to New York and Los Angeles and held widely-publicized hearings into employer racial and sex discrimination...