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...movie is a honky-tonk panorama of contemporary America and most of its obvious contradictions: a flagrant, nearly frenzied, workaday energy and a kind of moral deadness; a proud regard for history and heritage and an abiding need to construct a synthetic mythology; a sweeping national certitude and the hypocrisy that comes with it. Altman is fearless in his thematic ambitions for Nashville, and it is a good measure of his success that the movie is always fleet and supple, never top-heavy. The director and his talented collaborator Joan Tewkesbury (who also did the screenplay for Altman...
...aren't charging on meter violations or other legal spaces, although flagrant violations like blocking fire hydrants and obstructing driveways will be prosecuted," Teso said...
...game then entered the stage that all basketball games, once the outcome has been determined, succumb to. Otherwise referred to as garbage time, this stage involves the clearing of the benches, the abandonment of team basketball, and the flagrant disregard for defense...
...Some students received credit on their transcripts for course which they did not take. The most flagrant example reported involves '85 students who, in 1970, were given credit for two methods courses which were not offered that year. In an interview yesterday with The Crimson, Neumann said the Dean Allen told him that 'we forgot to teach those courses...
...flagrant violation" of the credit act's provisions designed to ensure accuracy and disclosure, said U.S. Judge H. Kenneth Wangelin. In what the current Privacy Report of the American Civil Liberties Union calls a "precedent-setting decision," Wangelin ordered O'Hanlon to pay Millstone $2,500 for actual damages, $12,500 for attorneys' fees and $25,000 in punitive damages. O'Hanlon thought that too harsh and is appealing...