Word: employses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Desperate Characters are neither desperate nor characters. This shockingly overwritten, overpraised work is the result of minor talents pursuing significance like hounds chasing after an endangered species. The film employs all the stock subjects of contemporary fiction, from the insensitive husband (Kenneth Mars) to the anaesthetized heroine (Shirley MacLaine). Her...
Dubious Advice. Reuben employs his familiar casual coyness, strained informality, unconvincing case histories and weak jokes. There is also some sloppy scholarship and an occasional piece of dubious advice. For example, he gleefully quotes "a veteran police officer" who advises women threatened with imminent rape to take the assailant'...
The hero is a young rascal named Michael Cullen, who lies and steals as a matter of course. Still, he also manages to suggest that these are merely tactics of self-defense in a world ruled by criminals far worse than he. For example: Claud Moggerhanger, a vice lord who...
Grunberger, a Vienna-born historian raised and educated in England, is author of two previous books on Nazism: Germany 1918-1945 and Hitler's SS. In The 12-Year Reich, he employs a variety of sources to assemble a riveting portrait of the skillful Nazi corruption of an already...
Contrasting their personalities, Carrie Nye says: "I honestly don't think Dick has an insecure bone in his body. He's a balanced man. I do things to excess. I am volatile and temperamental, and Dick is not. He's reasonable. It bothers him and me the way people always...