Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...made to ease the transition for newcomers into College life. The prefect program, however, is beset with problems. A battery of new reforms will make things a bit better for the Class of '91 than they used to be, but the reforms don't address the program's essential flaw...
...less clever and no less twisted when it comes to civil rights. He explains away his opposition to the Public Accommodations Bill, a forerunner of the Civil Rights Acts, as an "intellectual mistake" commited when he was under the sway of hard-core libertarianism. While Bork has corrected this flaw in his thinking, he has relaced it with a dogmatic faith in "the jurisprudence of Original Intent." This theory would bind America to the specific 18th Century values (allegedly) held by specific 18th Century gentleman. Lost in Bork's theoretical shuffle would be the broad guarantees the Framers actually bothered...
Unemployed, estranged from love and family, Doug wonders if redemption is possible in the throes of mid-life. It is, and therein lies the book's forgivable flaw. Without warning, the author seems to suffer a failure of nerve, as if the pain of his protagonist were too much for the reader (or perhaps the screen) to bear. Until its sun-washed finale, 50 maintains Corman's gift for putting acute observations in a comic package. But this time out, buyers should discard the pretty pink wrap...
...final flaw in No Way Out is more easily explained and ignored. Indeed, viewers who arrive at the movie five minutes late and leave five minutes early will avoid the setup and payoff for the preposterous twist that spoils this lively, intelligent remake of 1948's The Big Clock. A naval officer (Kevin Costner) is assigned to investigate a murder committed by his boss, the Secretary of Defense (Gene Hackman, his honest face at odds with his twisted soul), but for which the officer is the prime suspect. Costner and the victim- to-be (gorgeous Sean Young) play a romping...
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger began his testimony last Friday by declaring that he once believed his repeated advice to the President to reject the Iranian arms deals had succeeded in having "this baby strangled in its cradle." He cited a fundamental flaw in the effort to reach out to Iranian moderates. Said the Secretary: "I didn't think there were any moderates still alive in Iran." Astonishingly, Weinberger had to learn details of the Iran initiative from another country's intelligence reporting...