Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...favor of the Protestants. Lutheran Heimrich gave most of the credit for better Protestant billing to the Council of Churches' campaign to inform producers about Protestantism. One lost battle of the campaign: the council appealed to ministers for film scripts, got several and rejected them all. The flaw: "They would never get the seal of approval of the Production Code Administration, for in part (e.g., by portraying pastors bossed around by church-board members) they show the Protestant religion in a very bad light...
...actors often use their freedom and intimacy to do excellent work with their roles, the characters hardly ever act and speak to one another. They are not integrated; they are striking by themselves, but sacrifice the effect of an inter-related group. In Uncle Vanya this is a grave flaw...
...historical drama to television. Lee at Gettysburg, a 78-minute play written in lucid, often eloquent blank verse by young (35) TV Dramatist Alvin Sapinsley, opposed the general's two chief subordinates like tongs of a forceps with which to lay bare and probe Lee's fatal flaw...
...elegant puppet, he lives up to the excellent settings by Rolf Gérard (including a hilarious-looking Dungeon for Recalcitrant Husbands) and he delivers the lines and lyrics of Playwright Maurice Valency's able English adaptation with skilled gusto. In fact, Ritchard is guilty of only one flaw. He has included a cancan that is danced by the corps de ballet in more or less classic white ballet costumes-and a cancan without flashing garters is like a violin without a G string...
...biggest troubles is that the present system operates largely on the theory of "straight-line" depreciation, under which a company deducts a fixed percentage of the cost of its plant each year, e.g., 4% annually for 25 years, until eventually it recovers the full original cost. An obvious flaw in the system is that it makes no allowance for the speeded-up obsolescence caused by the billions going into new product research. As President William G. Laffer of Cleveland's Clevite Corp. says: "In electronics, for example, where there is a fast-changing technology, equipment is frequently outdated...