Word: gross
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...less off the cuff. The picture has strong overtones of a director's not only assaulting the audience but deflating himself in the process. Indeed, Warren Gates seems to have modeled his excellent characterization of Bennie on Peckinpah himself, complete with foggy aspect, enveloping sunglasses and calculatedly gross behavior...
...absurd not to link zero population growth with zero economic growth," argues Hauser. But Stephen Enke of General Electric's research organization, TEMPO, disagrees. A rapidly growing population generates a large labor force, he says, which in turn has in the past generated large increases in the gross national product. A stationary population, on the other hand, could produce zero economic growth-if other factors remain unchanged. But, maintains Enke, as population growth slows and a higher proportion of the population is in the labor force, savings rates generally increase. This in turn would expand capital and outlays...
Richler, adapting his own novel, portrays Buddy with the kind of wisdom that goes beyond explicit judgment. Like Richard Dreyfuss, the superb young actor who plays him, Richler is not afraid to make Buddy unlikable or even sometimes gross. Special attention should also be paid to one of Duddy's most elaborate schemes: hiring a perennially drunken and pompous British film maker in exile to make bar mitzvah movies for doting parents. The film maker is played by Denholm Elliott, who is hilariously disheveled and polluted nearly past the point of pretension, a characterization of enormous comic skill...
...Gross Insult to Justice
...want to retain our individual rights as well as law and order. Now that President Nixon has resigned rather than subject this country to the trauma of a trial in the Senate, to want to go even further and offer amnesty or "off the record" equivalents would be a gross insult to our system of justice...