Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down gum shoe with a hanger-on from the age of Aquarius. As a mere thematic gimmick, however, it's not too much less than half bad, and risks making you wish that directors would cut out these nostalgic and unimaginative throw-backs to the classics. But extra dimensions fast begin to fill out thanks to Benton's cleverly constructed script and his skillful direction. Bit by bit, he manages to do about as fine a job of taking the pre-War detective format and creatively putting it in the 1970s as Robert Altman did in The Long Goodbye...
Without Carter, Westfield was unable to keep up with Harvard's fast-paced game. Their defense, which was a middle-clogging zone in the first half, shifted to a man-to-man effort in the second half. Without Carter to slough off and block the lane, Harvard drove through the Westfield defense with ease...
...John D. MacDonalds--enthusiastically. Rather, the problem stems from the fact that the public can only buy what the publishers put in the bookstores--and American publishers have long labored under the misconception that the public does not want quality fiction. The familiar "Charlie's Angels" formula of writing--fast cars and faster women wrapped around a couple of gimmicks and out-dated cliches--now enjoys unprecedented popularity in most publishing houses, and so the public must regularly deal with works like Cussler's. Faced with no other choice, it buys them...
...symbolic. If not backed up by more concrete action, they may quickly lead to a foreign policy style that is superficially humane but substantatively corrupt; a policy of preaching respect for human rights while selectively overlooking corruption and repression among countries that receive U.S. support. That this superficiality may fast become an operating principle was suggested last week when in announcing the aid restrictions Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance said the U.S. would not press the human rights issue with countries in which America has "strategic interests...
...dealing with human rights in our foreign involvements will or should be simple, or that the Carter administration should be expected to reform a tradition of amoral pragmatism overnight. Foreign policy, which deals with so many conflicting commitments and considerations, can never be formulated successfully according to hard and fast moral doctrines. Rather, it is to be hoped that the Carter administration will continue to press the issue of human rights in principle, deal with each case on its own merits, and strive to make public the elements involved in each case so that the American people can judge...