Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chafin hopes that the minimal reorganization he plans will help ease the officers' worried over their job security. "You want people to function, and they're all walking on eggshells," he says...
Still, the function of a newspaper is to inform, not to proselytize; by remaining skeptical of all sides, and restricting editorial comments as much as possible to their proper place, we can perform that duty. At times this angers people--that is unavoidable, when a paper is dealing only with simplified accounts of fast-moving events. Yet as long as we give every side space to comment, as long as as many views as possible make it into print, then this newspaper, like any other, is doing its job. Bruised egos can heal later...
...Barrett, "partially muzzle what had once been proclaimed an open Administration. On the other hand, the White House has suffered extensively from too much contradictory talk from too many high officials. Though he quakes at the notion of becoming known as 'the Enforcer,' Rafshoon does perform that function to a limited extent, as he tries to get everyone marching in the same direction on sensitive questions...
Many of Evita's failings are a function of Rice's libretto, which never aspires to much more than a comic-book version of history. The author dutifully chronicles Evita's impoverished youth, her Buenos Aires radio career and her rise to power once married to Colonel Juan Perón (Joss Ackland). But Rice's point of view on his heroine is pure show biz; he's so agog he might as well be describing the career of Judy Garland. By the time Evita dies of cancer at age 33, we know...
...notes in their hotel suite expressing their faith in their father's powers and his intention-not further explained-to destroy California. Said Police Lieut. Roger Kinnersley: "The father was the absolute authority in the family. They believed that without his being present, the family would cease to function. So it's very likely that they thought they were merely following him where he had gone...