Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Communist countries draw S.R.O. crowds; his songs, which frequently blend Marxist-inspired lyrics with twanging strains of the Nashville sound (one big hit: War Goes On), sell in the millions. Last week the 40-year-old singer gained a new notoriety in his homeland; he turned up as the focus of the Kremlin's latest effort to get back at the U.S. for Jimmy Carter's criticism of the repression of Soviet dissidents...
...Commerce Commission 91 years ago, and big growth came during the New Deal, when such agencies as the Civil Aeronautics Board and the Securities and Exchange Commission were started. But most of the excesses that are drawing fire were born in the mid-1960s and early 1970s, when the focus turned from industry control to social reform and a large number of new bureaus were formed, including the Environmental Protection Agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Consumer Product Safety Commission...
...costs of new rules against the benefits. Alternatively, a new regulatory board could draw up for Congress an annual regulatory budget or calendar that would set out, in time for opposition to be heard, the costs and benefits as well as a timetable for new rules. Either idea would focus attention on the climbing cost of regulation and go a long way toward dampening Congressmen's ardor for enacting new laws for the agencies to enforce...
...script teems with tired devices. When Corky and Peggy gaze into each other's eyes, kiss, then exchange a long look, a bedroom scene is obviously going to follow -- and indeed, the camera cuts to a pair of naked bodies (or naked backs, anyway) rolling around in soft focus. The structure of Goldman's script is equally transparent; he shows the agent telling the story of Corky's life to a T.V. exec, a clumsy means of providing the audience with background material. In addition to these cliches, the movie sabotages many potentially chilling moments. While Corky drags the dead...
...felt removed from them when I talked to them. At the same time their fate scared me, my mind couldn't cope. There were too many voices, unconnected, too many trains of thought, all at once. The fact they were in such trouble eventually only made me focus more on my own. They seemed equally removed when I heard for a fact they were dead, which is odd, since I have as clear a picture of them standing there, witless, as I do of anything else I've ever seen. I even tried in detached curiosity to imagine how they...