Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peking)-Primarily an instrument of the power elite, it resorts at times to exaggeration, half truths and outright falsification. More of a governmental bulletin board than a newspaper, it probably reaches more people than any other publication in the world...
...recruits to the priesthood and religious orders of nuns "will continue to decline. By 1978 we may have less than half the number of priests and religious we have at present...
...trading specialists sat around a composition-board table laid over trestles to buy and sell shares. Despite a shortage of telephones and stock tickers, which forced them to run the tapes down the length of the table so that everyone could get a quick look, they managed to handle half of the P-B-W's normal volume the first...
...radiation, it destroys them without touching them. Jan and Eva become aliens in their own marriage. They rage against their cage and at each other. As Samuel Beckett puts it, "The mortal microcosm cannot forgive the relative immortality of the macrocosm. The whiskey bears a grudge against the decanter." Half from fear, half from the desire to have the child Jan cannot give her, Eva sleeps with a friend (Gunnar Björnstrand) who has become a partisan leader. Jan discovers the couple and becomes a gross caricature of himself. Formerly, he could not even kill a chicken...
Besides wrecking the funny material inherited from Southern and Hoffenberg, Henry adds some unfortunate bits of his own: a right-wing army officer (How's that for new satirical terrain?), some lecherous and brutal cops, a racially stereotyped black chauffeur and so on. There's no wit, just half-remembered jokes from other sources, clumsily executed...