Word: expectance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...smithereens in Mean Streets; Al Pacino in uniform at his sister's wedding in The Godfather, telling Diane Keaton how his father enforced a contract, his voice full of casual, measured menace; Dustin Hoffman end-running out of the church in The Graduate. At moments like those, you expect the film to freeze and to see a title appear: "The legend starts here." Travolta's walk said that...
...Thursday, the Administration was strongly urging the Israelis to move out of south Lebanon. "We expect Israel to withdraw," the State Department declared flatly. "The Americans are now saying 'Get out, get out,' " complained an Israeli official, "but if we do that without some arrangement, the south will soon be back to where it was before this week." To meet these objections, the U.N., supporting the U.S. plan, appeared ready to vote to send a force to police southern Lebanon so that the Israelis would have no excuse for remaining. It was reported that this force would number...
...steal a word from the heavyweight locker room bulletin board, "awesome" is what the heavyweights have been in the past and "awesome" is what you can expect them to be in the future as long as Harry Parker haunts aging Newell...
Mallardi believes strongly in the ideal of the suffering artist. According to her, no true artist, including the photographer, should expect to make a dime from his or her work. "Every great artist came from poverty," Mallardi told me. "The worst thing was to go home and tell your family. Now the arts are being permeated by the middle class, and the middle class is funding mediocrity...
...subcommittee's research reveals the inadequacy of the notion of American corporations effecting reform while remaining in South Africa. In 1976, Clark sent questionnaires to 260 firms operating in South Africa, asking for details of their labor, promotion, training and wage policies. One might expect that firms with especially poor records on racial policies would not reply to these queries. In fact, only about 30 per cent of the firms responded. Of that 30 per cent, some gave very incomplete and sketchy answers, and even among the companies that supplied sufficient documentation and detail, the report states there is "little...