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...intensity. The Story of Adele H. alternates between the depth of Adele's passion and the uncomprehending world around her. The audience is not subjected to and unrelieved barrage of profundity. The strange thing about Truffaut's perspective is that the everyday world doesn't destroy Adele, doesn't hamper her, and doesn't seem devalued compared with her own state of mind. Adele destroys herself while the world looks on benignly. With the exception of the callous (though not evil) lieutenant there are only good people in Adele's world--her father is loving, her landlady adoring...
...does provide emotional companionship but fails to tackle the pragmatic problems of divorce. Braudy had a network of friends to drag her out of her depression, she had a talent that merely needed development (she is now editor and writer for Ms. Magazine), and she had no children to hamper her individual development...
...until last week without a contract (their old one expired Aug. 31) so that the busing could begin unhampered by a strike. But as negotiations dragged on, many teachers suspected that the school committee, which is adamantly opposed to busing, was deliberately provoking them to strike in order to hamper desegregation...
...Eastern establishment families that sent its sons to Groton, Exeter, and Andover, he found it impossible to crack the club system in his sophomore year. In one of his more ignominious moments, Reed told his Jewish roommate, Carl Binger, that they could not live together, because it would hamper Reed's chances of gaining membership in the Hasty Pudding Institute. Reed preferred football games and social functions to participation in Walter Lippmann's newly formed Socialist Club...
After plunging from their lofty peaks of mid-1974, interest rates are drifting up again, raising concern that higher borrowing costs could discourage business and consumer spending and hamper the budding recovery. Manhattan's pace-setting First National City Bank has raised its prime loan rate to businessmen from a low of 6¾% in June to 7½% recently. And last week most other major banks followed suit and lifted their prime ¼% to 7½%. The effect is to lift the level of other short-term credit costs to business because many bank loan rates are scaled...