Word: fault
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scoffs, ever really said in the Old West, "Sie ritten da 'long " (They went thataway), much less, "Streck die Hände zum Himmel" (Reach for the sky). John Wayne barely escapes Old Joe's fusillade of complaints about Hollywood phoniness. "Inaccurate scripts aren't his fault," he allowed...
...That thing is sex. A brash American who leads an encounter group grudgingly attended by Jake puts the matter succinctly: "What's with Jake is that he can't get it up any more, and what's with Brenda is she thinks it's her fault for having gotten middle-aged and fat, so she feels...
...crippled because of its own stupidity and highhandedness. That we suffer an intelligence gap is its fault, not the fault of those who reacted to scandal and are understandably mistrustful of its "Trust us-just one more time...
...most participants, the real question was: If no one can prove that bigness is bad, then why ban it? To Irving Shapiro, chairman of E.I. du Pont de Nemours, the concept amounted to "no fault antitrust." In other words, it penalized companies simply for being more successful than their competitors...
...that could give the Civil Service justifiable cause to claim the D.C. bureaucracy is "lean." The problem with See No Evil is the author's approach. Trying desperately to write what he calls a "dramatic narrative" of the events, Cowan lapses into description of events that no judge could fault for being incomplete. Awkwardly referring to his own role in the fight, Cowan's legalistic style makes the book read like The Daily Variety...