Word: exertions
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...main concern about this case was that it would exert a chilling effect on college journalists who are interested in covering controversial subjects and people," Roy said...
...down the trade and payments deficits, by making U.S. goods and services cheaper in other countries and imports more expensive here. But those effects might not be felt for three or four years--certainly not in 1999. Next year, members of the TIME board say, the worsening deficits will exert enough drag on the U.S. economy to produce, finally, the slowdown so long forecast...
...true, however, that Japan had been culturally static until then. Japan's ancient imperial capital Kyoto represented the classic division of old Japanese power: court, samurai, priests. It continued to exert a great influence on the country's art. But in Edo, a more secular and even demotic imagination began to assert itself--marked, writes Singer, by "bold, sometimes brash expression...and a playful outlook on life in general." This happened because Japanese society, in the new capital, became somewhat more open to change. Not very much, but a little, and then a little more. The once despised merchants...
...establish Metro Goldwyn Mayer as the industry's dominant film factory, from the silent era through the talkies revolution. While the other early moguls were simply trying to make the best movies they could, young Mayer was an ideologue intent on using the power of the new medium to exert what he considered the proper moral influence on the American public...
...then why, the movie asks, does TV nostalgia exert such a powerful appeal? The false "pleasantness" of Pleasantville is completely exposed, but not before the film, quite appropriately, derives a lot of pleasure from bringing us there. One might argue that the movie is only about the shows that our parents watched when they were growing up, which now live on in eternal reruns on Nick at Nite--but then again, The Wonder Years, a show from our own youth, has found a home on that cable station too. The nostalgia factor isn't limited...