Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Throughout the uproar, Carter sat stonefaced. According to a White House aide, the President was dismayed by the lack of decorum on what was, in many respects, a formal state occasion. But Begin, who used to be quite a heckler himself when he was a deputy, seemed almost to relish the rowdiness as a proof of his repeated argument that his negotiating powers are limited by opposition in the Cabinet and Knesset...
Ellington at Eight was performed by a company--in the words of one of the group (sadly prophetic!) "We have no stars." This was one of the reasons why the ensemble numbers proved so much more successful, in general, than solos or duets or trios--precisely because of the lack of artists with the "star-quality" to fill the expanse of the mainstage and its auditorium. With the possible exception of Bonnie Zimering's dancing, which was a continual joy to watch, there simply was no personality on stage with that combination of talent and egoism that forces...
...numbers, which worked more or less successfully: an enormous letter, for example, out of which popped singers and dancers. Yet as each device in this series of specials progressed, rather than covering any deficiency, it made one even more painfully aware of the repetitious nature of the show, its lack of directionality. Significantly, the largest hand of applause was for a blues number sung without frills in the second act, and yet the biggest laugh was reserved for when another special effect lowered from the roof stuck and had to be raised and lowered three times during black-outs...
...such neat packages of self-acknowledged hokum that it is difficult to resent or condescend to them. Compared to the slackness and swaggering middlebrow pretension of recent thrillers like The Invasion of the Body Snatchers or The Last wave, they are remarkable for their stringent suspensefulness, their fundamental lack of conceit, the inventiveness of numerous details and situations, and a sharp, reverberant visceral twang...
...stated in my article that the exchange of information basically sought by the conference occurred, but this is not to forget that the exchange was hampered by lack of focus, overattention to resolutions, and poor organization. I do not deny that the organizers had a difficult job: I just say they didn't do it very well...