Word: judgmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Simon's book, is that Bergman is the greatest genius the cinema has produced. The sum of his artistry, in Simon's view, surpasses all other film-makers'; the individual works are unmatched except by Fellini and Antonioni at their best. In the interview. Simon tells Bergman his judgment straight off, but the book is by no means mere obeisance, though the unsparing acidity characteristic of Simon's New York magazine theater column corrodes few Bergman frames...
...embarrassing as it may have been to the Air Force, Heck's decision neither embarrassed nor surprised his family, who knew his feelings from his letters-and sympathized. Said his father, a real estate broker in Chula Vista, Calif.: "It was not a snap judgment. From about September on-from the time he had to go back to Viet Nam, in fact-we had the feeling that he felt things there were not the way he expected them to be. And then when we had this mass bombing, before Christmas, it was just the last straw that triggered...
...want to spend the rest of my life in some courtroom, being harassed and interrogated." Besides, Hughes had good reason to think that he would lose. Since the case began in 1961, he had been beaten in every battle: in 1963 a federal judge moved to enter a default judgment against him for refusing to appear in court, in 1970 a federal district court awarded TWA $145 million in damages and in 1971 an appeals court affirmed the award. Last year Hughes sold the oil-drilling-equipment end of the Hughes Tool Co. for about $150 million-a move widely...
Most important to me were the color pages on American art. I treasured them and in years that were to come made my own collection of such art, guided in the early days by the magazine's good judgment...
...many believers thought that they were on the brink of the seventh day of Creation, and trembled in expectation of the Second Coming. German and Flemish painters of the 15th century turned eschatology, the study of "last things," into high art, epitomized by Jan Van Eyck's Last Judgment. The 19th century was rife with Second Coming excitements: one movement, the Millerites, eventually became the Seventh-Day Adventists. The "Millennial Dawn" group expected the end in 1914; they are now the Jehovah's Witnesses...