Word: expectance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There will be an anti-Bakke march in Washington D.C. next Saturday, Ogletree said. "We expect 10,000 to 15,000 people will attend the D.C. march if it doesn't rain," he added...
...enrollment in Warwick's course follows the apparent trend in ethical interest among students, he should expect to at least double enrollment next year. "This is quite a booming field," he says, "and probably more is being done here ar Harvard than at other schools...
...self-image as "an honorary black," they lead the dull and insistently predictable life of any suburban couple. At this point in his life (he is 64), Castle asks the bare minimum of life. And like most Greene heroes, he harbors the perpetual conviction that the less you expect from life the more you're likely to lose...
...funniest movies ever made, and Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein were outrageous parodies of two moribund film genres. But his last film, Silent Movie, was a bomb, although it reflected a willingness to do the unconventional. Silent Movie relied too much on slapstick (what do you expect from a movie with no dialogue?) and as a result became quite tedious. Brooks learned from that experience, for High Anxiety has the most developed plot of any Brooks film since The Producers and a minimum of sight gags, and although it ultimately fails to be very entertaining, Brooks has made a pretty...
Brooks freaks who love to see people farting or punching out horses and those who expect outrageously funny dialogue will be equally disappointed by High Anxiety. The movie, dedicated to Alfred Hitchcock and filled with little imitations of the master, just isn't very funny, except in a few spots. Once again, the film is a Brooks extravaganza--he wrote, produced, directed, starred and out-did himself this by writing the words and music to the title song. You'll never guess who sings...