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With the new influx of applications, however, this procedure has already caused a thorny administration problem and may give rise in the future to a serious flaw in the entire administration procedure...
Moving great works of art always stirs fears-vivid thoughts of a plane's crashing and burning with a considerable part of the work of Van Gogh, or the Pietà gently cracking in two along some unknown flaw line (although technicians, having bombarded the sculpture with X rays and cobalt 60 gamma rays, have discovered it to be the perfect piece of marble that Michelangelo said it was). Beyond fears for the safety of the art, its sponsors are given to worry over whether the likes of World...
...more serious flaw lies in the film's slick casting. Lee Tracy delivers Man's best performance, repeating his stage role as a former President, a tough old war horse who is dying of cancer but savors a final taste of power as two party hopefuls battle to win his support. "There is nothing like a dirty, lowdown political fight to put the roses in your cheeks," snaps Tracy with cantankerous glee. The candidates before him are Cliff Robertson, a cutthroat crusader who adapts his convictions to the latest Gallup surveys, and Henry Fonda, the idealistic egghead. Fonda...
...field. Gunnoe, the team's leading scorer last season, made six goals and six assists: Wood scored six times and assisted on three goals. Along with Williams, Gunnoe and Wood are the only reliable shooters on the team, and that is the Crimson's major flaw...
...dollops of sentiment and a formula ending flaw the otherwise engaging and perceptive script by Nora and Nunnally Johnson. Though droll performances are rung up by Prentiss, Sellers and Angela Lansbury (as Tippy's pampered, promiscuous mother), all are up against a force of nature as potent as Disneyland. Director George Roy Hill is obviously happy to let the camera ogle while his half-pint scene stealers do their stuff. And why not? It's grand larceny...