Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maybe Bronson gets his lift from the visuals, then: he looks like a statue placed perfectly to fill in these scenes. Indeed, if there's one problem with Hill's tableau, it's that the period stuff looks a little stagy and flat (less so than most contemporary American movies set in the urban thirties, The Sting, Lady Sings the Blues, etc., but tacky compared to what the Europeans can do, maybe because they have the buildings and untouched sections of cities to do it with). In this case perhaps Bronson-the beaten face, the mistrustful eyes-is just another...
Danehy's first priority is development in Kendall Square, to lift the tax burden and unemployment. After that, he stresses his vociferous opposition to rent control and public housing. "Rent control has made tenants and landlords combatants," Danehy said, "and has hindered development in Cambridge...
...observation, namely, that research is arduous and its results visible, hence risky, whereas in the privacy of the classroom, teaching is generally subject to less careful scrutiny. Hence research requires a climate of support from one's departmental colleagues and not only from administrators who may be seeking to lift the level of their institutions. David Riesman
...months the Administration has been pressuring Congress to lift...
...cowboys, stunt men in the employ of a poverty-row outfit called Tumbleweed Productions, give Lewis a lift to Hollywood and set him down on his own. He picks up a little work as an extra, hangs around the Tumbleweed offices, gets tight with a grizzled old coot named Howard Pike (Andy Griffith), has a shot at being a cowboy star himself, meets a girl (Blythe Banner), works on his novel, and tries to stay away from the two con men who have tracked him all the way to L.A., looking for their strongbox...