Word: fecklessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play's tragic relief is supplied by the wrenching pathos of the orchard's owner, Madame Ranevskaya. In this role the production boasts the splendid Irene Worth. Hers is a memorable portrayal - extravagant, feckless, alluring, touchingly vulnerable. When she ritualistically halves the telegram from her erstwhile lover in Paris - slowly, pain fully, like a bandage - an entire life is caught between the past it cannot release and the future it cannot resist...
...infamous documents that are preying on Lancaster's mind. There is nothing in them worth picking up a picket sign to protest, let alone knocking over a missile base. In short, the movie's not in considerable possibilities for innocent entertainment are undercut by the feckless desire of small minds to make a big statement...
Shout at the Devil is certainly silly, and looks something of a shambles be sides, but it is a jolly enough enterprise, bumptiously entertaining in its own feckless way. Marvin overacts outrageously, sometimes lapsing into a full-fledged imitation of W.C. Fields gone native. Parkins is pretty, and Moore deft and quite amusing as a sort of good-hearted dolt. Director Peter Hunt (Gold) got his start as film editor on the early James Bond adventures and knows how to work on the funny bone even as he stages a punchy scene. The movie hardly wants for plot or action...
...only candidate with the campaigning skills and ability to articulate the issues that will be effective in a campaign against Carter. Ford seems to bolster that argument of Reagan's with virtually every campaign appearance. For example, last week in Ohio the President added to his repertory of feckless rhetorical mannerisms by constantly referring to himself in the third person?"I'm confident that President Jerry Ford can be elected." Commented a telephone company executive in Findlay, Ohio: "He sounds like he's delivering a 'man who' nominating speech for somebody else...
Survival Strategies. The rising terror has been coupled with ruinous inflation, currently running at a rate of 600% a year and caused largely by the feckless government economic policies. While the treasury presses out billions of pesos each week to finance rising deficits, the Peron regime has tried to soften the inflation's impact on wage earners by imposing artificial ceilings on service and commodity prices. These ceilings, in turn, have severely squeezed farmers and businessmen, with the result that goods and services are simply disappearing...