Word: headstrong
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...order as "fundamentally unfair in applying strict controls to wages and a vague procedure with respect to profits and prices." Privately, union leaders were somewhat more conciliatory, offering to give the plan a fair trial. Many labor chiefs are embarrassed at some of the extravagant pay increases won by headstrong local union leaders, but under the Landrum-Griffin Act they have little power to intervene. Their publicly stated indignation at Nixon's plan is partly a gesture intended to show militant members that they put up a fight...
...away to a Laszlo Kovacs Easy Rider scenic vista whenever something seemed about to happen; Alan Arkin's Yossarian in Mike Nichols' Catch-22; Carrie Snodgress's heroine and Frank Perry's paranoiac camera work in the somewhat overdrawn Diary of a Mad Housewife; Charles Bronson's headstrong investigator in Rene Clement's Rider on the Rain; the dripping decadence and provocative idea behind Performance; and the grand style of Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon and Michel Bouquet in the overly maligned Jacques Deray cartoon known as Borsalino...
...usual when dealing with the impetuous and the headstrong, Eliot and Snow maintain a judicious tolerance toward Charles and his friends. Only the plot betrays an unspoken elders' bias: it is you people who make the messes that we people have to tidy up. Young Charles sees that there are other, better ways to effect change and takes off to the Middle East to acquire influence-on-the-quick. Another bright learner in the old Snow power game? Snow is ambiguous, and the ending is about as inconclusive as Snow's ten earlier endings...
TRUE GRIT. John Wayne, at 62, has the time of his long screen life in this cornball western comedy about a stubborn old marshal who joins forces with a headstrong teen-age girl (Kim Darby) to bring some murderers to justice. The Duke's performance as the marshal proves that his nickname has never been more...
TRUE GRIT. John Wayne, at 62, has the time of his long screen life in this cornball western comedy about a stubborn old marshal (Wayne) who joins forces with a headstrong teen-age girl (Kim Darby) to bring some murderers to justice. The Duke's performance proves that his nickname has never been more...