Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Another flaw of The Girl I Left Behind is its definitively white, educated, upper-class outlook. Reilly comes from the world of a second house in the country, Seven Sister schools, and parties with Leonard Bernstein on Manhattan's Upper East Side. She assumes her readership will be able to relate to her multi-divorce, psychiatrist-guided life. But whether the majority of American women find O'Reilly's world view easy to identify with, she at least tries hard to reach them. She has attempted and still strikes to make mainstream and familiar a movement that is often threatening...
...nice people--the interview with Joan Crawford, conducted in 1963, is particularly damning, given the revelations of Mommie Dearest. Terkel just lets them talk, egomaniacs, saints and sinners. They only differ from a truly representative sample of the nation in that they are probably more interesting--hardly a grave flaw...
...comfortable retirement, Holmes admits that he does not need any more money, and that he has had his fill of the limelight. He is not a killer-fighter and has been known to beg an opponent to give up rather than get hurt. This gentleness, which some call a flaw, will eventually be the deciding factor in his leaving the ring...
Ironically, the series' greatest flaw is a result of its principal asset: Miller's agile mind. The host's penchant for explaining everything in terms of something else-gunpowder to show how nerves fire muscles into contraction; cartography to demonstrate the differences between organs and tissues-can be instructive. But analogies are used so lavishly that audiences may be subject to acute metaphoritis. The going occasionally gets so dense that the viewer is tempted to cry: "Give it to me straight, Doc. I can take...
...evaluate it procedurally, but even if that looks good, something can go wrong," he adds. "The Kennedy transition seemed successful in 1960-61, but look what directly followed that: the Bay of Pigs." Unlike Moore, who declines to discuss the Carter experience in 1976, May points out the "procedural flaw" made in trying to separate officially Watson's staff from Jordan's. Remembering and explaining such as lesson in this election and in the future is the job of the IOP committee, May adds...