Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...watching the debates on TV in New York, only half jested: "I don't know if Ford or Carter won. All I know is that Israel won." Despite the insistence that it has no preference in the race, the administration of Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin is believed to favor the incumbent. Familiarity is again the reason...
...woolly cry, does rather well as Morgan. The relationship between Morgan and the aborigine Billy is intriguing, and David Gulpilil (who appeared previously in Nicolas Roeg's excellent Walkabout) acts Billy with easeful understanding. The depth of their friendship, and all of its meaning, is shunted aside in favor of sharpening up the same dull point: civilized man is the true primitive, and out laws are ground down because they are creatures of pure, therefore intolerable freedom. The people who made this movie may have found a fresh scene in Australia, but what they really needed...
Carter's support among Catholics has slipped by 3 percentage points to 45%, while his backing among Protestants has remained almost unchanged at 42%. He has picked up strength among nonwhites, 71% of whom now favor him, v. 66% in August. But only 39% of the white voters prefer him, down from 44% in the previous survey...
...Barrault and Lanoux have suffered over the course of their decade-long marriages. Pisier is an impulsive and flirtatious gamine and Marchand a priapic cad who insists on relieving his guilt by telling his wife all the lurid details. If that isn't enough to stack the deck in favor of Barrault and Lanoux, we also find out that they, unlike their incorrigibly promiscuous mates, have for the most part remained stolidly faithful. They are such innocents, in fact, that even after their relationship moves from mutual solicitude to romantic attraction, they make an attempt to remain only platonic lovers...
Denise Thal's three-setter decided the match in favor of Radcliffe. With the team score knotted at 3-3 and Thal's number two match tied at one set apiece, the captain captured the crucial win with a 6-3 third-set victory...