Word: faults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...loose service game and wasbroken in the first game of the second set.Passarella effectively closed the door in the nextgame with a tough, hard-fought hold of service togo up 2-0. After this his opponent unraveledmentally, and lost the match (7-6,6-3) on anignominious double fault...
...sober documentary into the slow-motion romp of a Mr. Magoo social historian. Main character Dr. Humberto Fuentes (Federico Luppi) undergoes an overblown process of discovery in which we are invited to partake: nasty secret things happening and happen after civil strife. Again, no one can fault Sayles for noble motives, and obviously the story itself merits only the most serious consideration, but Sayles moves much better from family to family than from village to village. And how come they didn't notice all that stuff from the helicopters? --Nicolas R. Rapold...
...Moore's insights into the human element are precious. The people he interviews while they are eating dinner at The Hearty Platter make rather simplistic economic comments, but they're obviously in bad shape; and it's not really their fault. A band of welfare mothers march into the Milwaukee State House, offering to clean the governor's office as an illustration of their eagerness to work. One mother recites the government retraining programs that have left her as unemployed as when she began. This is real, and hearing it from the mouths of real people rather than from Democrats...
From such unexpected turns you might conclude that our political fault lines are extraordinarily subtle and complex. Or you could conclude that our pols and activists and professional ideologues are throne sniffers who care more for power than principle. With the precision of a poli-sci prof, Jones has shown us the answer...
...Then there was the dark side. Amid the glories of the century lurked some of history's worst horrors: Stalin's collectivization, Hitler's Holocaust, Mao's Cultural Revolution, Pol Pot's killing fields, Idi Amin's rampages. We try to personalize the blame, as if it were the fault of just a few madmen, but in fact it was whole societies, including advanced ones like Germany, that embraced or tolerated madness. What they had in common was that they sought totalitarian solutions rather than freedom. Theologians have to answer the question of why God allows evil. Rationalists have...