Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Flaw. Skepticism about the Bible, he thinks, results not from any flaw in the book itself but from the antisupernatural mood of modern philosophies. Logical positivism, for example, declares that statements about God are nonsense because they cannot be verified by direct empirical observation...
...voyeur in us that is left feeling unfulfilled. We learn about Neruda, the poet-philosopher, but little about Neruda, the fallible man, demystified and much like us. The impression left from the Memoirs is of a man almost too selfless, too moral, too forgiving. His only flaw seems to be a culturally-determined sexism...
Bogdanovich is right to mourn the passing of the foolishness and charm of the happy-go-lucky flickers: It is too bad that the frantic slapstick of the film's early passages ill prepares one for the ending, vitiating its force. It is by no means a fatal flaw, there being so much about Nickelodeon-including supporting performances by Tatum O'Neal, Brian Keith and Stella Stevens-that is captivating. It is just that the film does not realize all of its potential...
...innumerable interviews. Most of the questionnaires were distributed through NOW, Oui, Mademoiselle, Ms. and The Village Voice--which obviously slants the sampling toward certain income levels, races and frames of mind. (I would bet no female Ford Motor Co. factory worker ever saw the questionnaires.) This is undeniably a flaw, but not of the magnitude that some reviews have made...
...perhaps, that failure is her book's major flaw--nowhere does she undertake a sympathetic examination of the effect of the status quo on anybody other than women. If the structure of mothering in society were really the only source of world problems--Rich blames patriarchy for every problem from anomie to malnutrition--her argument might be valid; if women alone were exploited under the present system, then repossessing our bodies would feed everyone. Her paranoia blinds her, forcing her to reach a puerile conclusion. Which is too bad, because she starts out with an uncontestable argument. It's just...