Word: flatness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Disciplinary Counsel Fred Grabowsky now says: "Watergate may have been the best thing that ever happened to us." Prodded by Supreme Court decisions, the bar has belatedly begun backing group prepaid legal-service plans, Blue Shield-style arrangements that bring legal aid to middle-income citizens for a flat fee (the United Auto Workers, for instance, has installed such a system for its Chrysler workers). With some exceptions, bar groups have also pushed for expansion of Government legal-assistance programs for the poor (which incidentally employ more lawyers...
...thrall of the office is extraordinary. One senses it in unsingular things. For instance, I never saw so many lawns being cut at the same time. The smell of newly mown grass drifted out of the hills onto the flat land and overpowered the senses. There were American flags on the houses of the meanest and most ageless old recluses of my boyhood. The place was taut with pride. There was something touching in the spontaneity...
Well, he sports a beard and lightened hair for his role as a young steelworker in The Deer Hunter, now being shot on location near Pittsburgh. That must be it: De Niro does not look like De Niro. But then neither did the flat-out dumb baseball catcher in Bang the Drum Slowly, the moody aristocrat in 1900, the murderous psychopath in Taxi Driver, the elegantly upholstered movie mogul in The Last Tycoon, or the jazzed-up saxophone player in the newly released New York, New York. For that matter, none of these characters looked much like another-except...
...mirror image of the puritan work ethic. The idea here is to play, hustle and use the last cent's worth of the $30 plus it may take a family of four to get in. At most parks (major exceptions: Disneyland and Disney World), there is a flat admission fee that enables parents and offspring to sample and resample every major attraction without charge. Remembering the rapacious playlands of the past, where gambling, boozing and whoring were as rife as popcorn and pizza, most theme parks promote soft drinks and fast foods. They dispense a dizzily dyspeptic array...
...skyscraper nightclub where Tommy Dorsey's orchestra is doing a radio spot. Unemployed Sax Player Jimmy Doyle (Robert De Niro), on a spree in his sporty new civvies, picks up ex-U.S.O. Singer Francine Evans (Liza Minnelli) in an ill-paced scene that is lumbered with flat, witless dialogue ("Give me your phone number...