Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Radcliffe authorized patch-work repairs on the building, but didn't confront the question that is only now--more than a year after problems were first noticed--being asked: Is the damage a result of a fundamental flaw in design, construction, or building materials...
...million dollars a week on their nightly news. Big budgets made possible the satellite reporting from West Beirut; large American audiences agonizing over what they saw (including one viewer in the White House) hastened the ceasefire. But if network news is indispensable, it is also inadequate. Its fatal flaw is fear of the bored viewer switching channels. Those who get their news mostly from TV, as most Americans do, end up spottily informed. Richard Nixon, who can be right some of the time, says that "television is to news what bumper stickers are to philosophy...
Perhaps this film's only other flaw is an awkward contrast to the Mayo-Paula duo. Mayo has a buddy, Sid Worley (David Kieth), who enters the service to try fill the shoes of a brother killed in Vietnam. Sid falls for the curves of one of Paula's factory floozy colleagues--but the pairing ends in a rather melodramatic tragedy out of place in an otherwise down-to-earth film...
...King--but also Howard Jarvis, George Wallace, and Jerry Falwell. To put it another way, Piven and Cloward correctly assess the contradiction between capitalism and democracy: Phillips, however, paints a subtler picture of an America bedeviled by multiple contradictions--regional, cultural, racial, religious, and ideological. Nowhere is this basic flaw in their analysis more evident than in Piven and Cloward's dismissal of Reagan's appeal to "traditional values" as a corporate ruse. Rather, Reaganism is a very real evocation of long-standing American right-populist political sentiment...
...Force officer pushed the emergency button to detonate the small explosive charges packed on board. The nose cone, which fell into the Atlantic, carried no nuclear warhead. At week's end officials were still trying to determine what caused the failure; preliminary blame was placed on a flaw in the first-stage rocket motor...