Word: exception
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...camera, have served up more plot than the film's skimpy characterization can plaster together. Perhaps as a unification device, Schlesinger again hauls out his Darling trick of beginning the dialogue of the next scene while still presenting a first one. No scene is presented at any great length, except the the key one in which Stamp wins Miss Christie with a flashing display of sword exercises on a sweeping Dorset Hill...
Upsetting the Elders. As usual, the modern-day Charlemagne brought along some controversy in his satchel. The Spaniards, who are the dominant influence in Andorran life, were irked that he had refused to meet his Spanish Co-Prince, the Bishop of Urgel, except at an out-of-the-way church. The bishop remained in Spain. De Gaulle also upset the Andorran elders, who zealously guard their privileges, by urging them to relax the strict rules that deny citizenship to two-thirds of Andorra's 15,000 residents. And he winced visibly when the Andorrans broke into a game...
...Except in Florida and Southern California, drive-in churches generally function only in the summer or for Easter sunrise services. They particularly attract vacationers who, as one minister puts it, suffer from "normal protestantitis"-the feeling that summer is the time to take a holiday from church. Many worshipers are attracted by the lack of usual Sunday formality, show up in everything from bathing suits to pajamas. The church lots are invariably packed with cars carrying rooftop boats, surfboards, golf clubs and picnic hampers. But the convenience of drive-in services also attracts the sick and disabled, parents with small...
...aura of bemusement too, an awareness that vanity often takes precedence over common sense. Asked Narrator Dick McCutchen: "If you feel that a $10 jar of something or other has made you look dazzling, and we tell you that it couldn't have possibly made any difference, except in your mind, does it mean that you have wasted your money...
...board and in effect denouncing that, it went on to discuss other issues, including what has in fact been developing anyway for a long time: more consultation, more Faculty-student dialogue, and agreed to look into the institution of a committee which might have been started a week earlier except we couldn't very well change our machinery in the middle of the crisis...