Word: faintest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should be obvious by now that nobody has the faintest idea. Protagonist, Judger, Cannonade, Capital Asset, and Capito will all need some juicing up if they're going to do it. And can anyone see a beast named Rube the Great etching his name into the annals of history...
Frank moves with the cat-like precision of a man who fears that the slightest delay, the faintest sign of tarry, will be interpreted as sloth by those who so impatiently await their pizza...
...nostalgia. Streisand predictably does her adorable neurotic bit. Redford unpredictably brings nothing to his role but his physical presence. As for the period, it is represented by a rag of costuming, a bone of set decoration and a hank of hairstyling. No one seems to have the faintest idea of the way we really were, spiritually and intellectually, in a testing, fascinating time of transition. The ideas and issues, and above all the human passions that arose out of them, are missing from this slick, cold and gutless work...
...underground Zionist army, and fought in the 1948 war of independence. His military career advanced rapidly as he followed Bar-Lev from command to command until he succeeded him as Chief of Staff in 1971. Last April Elazar predicted, "I don't believe the Egyptian forces have the faintest chance of winning a battle...
...stonier prose - obdurate, flat and mannered. Hellman is a virtuoso of ellipsis, a quality that doubtless served her well as a dramatist. In Pentimento she seems to take pride in leaving out connectives, or capping a half-told tale with a brief coda, unrelated except for the faintest resonance of tone...