Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heated) and more art than several substantial museums. It has 30 bars, lounges and public galleries, and in its ample pantries carries 23,000 liters of wine, 3,500 liters of champagne and Asti Spumante and 330 Ibs. of Iranian caviar. The ship also carries, however, a technical flaw common to many new ships: strong vibrations caused by slight faults in the propellers, which will be replaced when it returns to Genoa...
...more basic flaw of the film is evidenced in the climactic cry of anguish that sounds Sol Nazerman's re-entry into the human race but echoes mostly as a triumph for Actor Steiger. Saddled with dialogue better suited to a symbol, Steiger speaks it like a man, succeeding so well that the character incriminates himself. This misanthropic pawnbroker has suffered no more than millions of Jews; he is simply meaner in spirit, a wretched and pitiable case study wearing the tragic mask...
...obvious advantage of this plan is that it would create more money that could be used in international trade. The obvious flaw is that many countries might be reluctant to turn over to the IMF powers to expand and contract the international supply of money. Replying to that objection, IMF Managing Director Pierre-Paul Schweitzer notes that the size of the money supply is now determined by such hazards as the extent of the U.S. dollar deficit and the amount of South African gold production-and that it would be far better for the world to control its monetary reserves...
...only flaw was the chorus. Most of them simply were not very good dancers. And their facial expressions were ludicrous. Lack of blank expressions, I am told, is one of the factors that distinguish jazz dancing from modern dancing. In The Comedy, facial expression was ably used as a means of communication. But in an American in Paris the pasted on smiles of most of the dancers made them look like a night club chorus line. The chorus was ably used, however, in the travel and farewell scenes, where they convincingly represented inanimate objects, like trains and waves...
...deeper than German politics. Protesting against the "new wave of distrust," Die Zeit in a front-page editorial noted that there is a "new generation" of Germans which knows Nazi crimes "only from history books and which therefore finds it hard to comprehend that being a German is a flaw of birth. For the sake of this generation, we may be forgiven for saying: One cannot treat a nation like a juvenile delinquent-always under the moral sword, a potential criminal until he proves the contrary...