Word: invalidism
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...argument that merit alone should determine college and graduate school admissions is invalid because "the standard of merit and the basis for the meritocracy are socio-economic tests," Bell said, noting that special admittance for athletes, alumni children and others has been accepted for years...
Ellen Burstyn is called upon to cover a physically and emotionally broad range of acting. While empathetically assuming the pain of an invalid she goes through an impressive series of facial and bodily contortions. Ordinarily possessed of a mild countenance with round, gentle features, her face can grow taut with anger or sadness...
...GOLDMAN AND DEMME didn't make him a hero. They don't try to graft any Hero of the American West symbolism onto this resolutely unheroic man; Dummar is no Gilmore, and Goldman is no Mailer. Melvin never gets a cent because the courts rule his will invalid. He faces his defeat with a curious--yet by this time predictable--ambivalence. Melvin says and actually seems to believe that he never had anything, so he's not losing anything. Despite all the lousy hands he has been dealt, Melvin enjoys his life and doesn't see any reason to change...
...union's nine-member executive board declares one ballot favoring Crockett invalid, but calls for another election to determine the presidency. Two months later, Crockett wins by a wide margin, because, one source explains, "Mullen didn't let the people know the spoiled ballot wasn't her fault, that it wasn't trickery. She just sat around, and Charlie won going away...
...Dummar. He is the Utah gas station operator who claims that in 1968 he picked up an injured Howard Hughes in the desert, gave him a lift back to Las Vegas, and was rewarded by being named a beneficiary of Hughes' will-a document that the courts ruled invalid two years ago. Anyone looking for authentic information about that Melvin and that Howard is advised herewith that this movie will not help: the film makes no claims about Melvin's tale one way or the other. But anyone looking for the poetic truth about Dummar, and most especially...