Word: lended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wesker has unwittingly blown the cover on his melodramatic portrayal of working-class life. It was a nearly flawless imitation, yet no more human than that electronic melody. Wesker found himself with puppets on his hands, and he had to invent an improbable murder scene at the end to lend some dramatic force to his paper-thin characters...
...Governor has offended almost every organization that could lend him support. The Illinois Education Association, angry at Walker for vetoing education bills, is backing Hewlett. The United Auto Workers are against the Governor because the state took an unconscionably long time to distribute unemployment checks. The Illinois State Employees Association supports Howlett, charging that Walker is "creating a shambles of orderly government...
...Hubert H. Humphrey's personal physician, Dr. Edgar Herman, created a flap by announcing that "raging hormonal influences" made women unfit for high-pressure jobs. The most impressive work on the effects of menstruation-by Endocrinologist Dr. Katharina Dalton of London's University College Hospital-seems to lend plausibility to the Herman thesis. In studies over a 20-year period, Dr. Dalton found that the grades of female pupils showed a 15% drop when exams fell during days of "premenstrual tension." She also reported that about half of female job absenteeism, suicides, police arrests, traffic accidents and admissions...
Bounds said she hoped these professionals will "lend a certain credibility to our organization by their association with...
...murder is preferable to death in defense of human values, the whole emotional thrust of the film implies that conclusion. Certainly, Wertmuller presents the opposing case, but whenever characters speak against Pasqualino's point of view, they do so in abstract rhetorical terms without a context that could lend any human meaning to their arguments. When Pasqualino and Francesco argues that the two of them are as guilty as the Germans since they are doing nothing to prevent it. But this is simply an inauthentic rendition of stock anti-collaborationist arguments, which makes no sense in the situation since they...