Word: excepted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There's no way you can make a judgment about the performance of the defense except that it played well enough to win. Sure it surrendered 21, but those guys were out there for almost two-thirds of the game ("That cannot be!" says the fan who believes everything he has read about Harvard's clock-munching offense.). Bob Woolway did turn in an inspiring performance at linebacker in his first start. I appreciate the way he destroys everything but leaves women and small children standing...
...watching world two documents that were giant efforts toward peace in the Middle East. Though considerable obstacles and hard bargaining remain, it was a major breakthrough in areas that have defied all the efforts of war and diplomacy for three decades. The outcome was substantially more than anyone except perhaps Host Jimmy Carter had believed possible before the summit began?and immensely more than had been anticipated right up to the Sunday on which the summit was to end, apparently in failure...
...second document was "A Framework for the Conclusion of a Peace Treaty Between Egypt and Israel." Except on one critical point left unresolved, the status of Israeli settlements in the occupied Sinai, it was even more precise and explicit. It called for an Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty to be signed within three months, major Israeli withdrawals within three to nine months after that, the normalization of all relationships between the two countries within a year and complete Israeli withdrawal from Egyptian territory within three years. Though the two agreements were not contingent upon each other, the aim was clear: through...
...season opens this afternoon with what has to be considered a gut compared to the rest of the schedule -- the MIT Engineers. Except that this year the booters are not settling for a Pass; they are shooting for the 'A', summa cum laude, the Latin Oration at Commencement -- the works...
...tradition of these other native ironists, Malick keeps his distance from his material. Though built around a heartbreaking love triangle, Days of Heaven has no introspective dialogue and no Freudian fireworks. Accordingly, actors have been cast more on the basis of how they look than how they emote. Except for Gere, who is too manicured to pass for a migrant, the cast serves the movie well. In a more conventional film, perhaps, Gere might have caused severe damage; here he is just an irritant...