Word: lightened
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THERE ARE MOMENTS when Inserts seems to aspire to tragedy and others when it verges on absurdist farce. The broadly farcical sequences lighten what might otherwise be a plodding melodrama and heighten the pathos of The Boy Wonder's plight. A contrast is effected between The Boy Wonder's intelligence and dedication to cinematic art, and the foolish self-serving idiocy of the world around him. At one point, Stephen Davies as Rex, dubbed the Wonder Dog, an empty-headed young undertaker with visions of film stardom who moonlights as porno stud, proposes a perverse idea for flaunting his masculinity...
Some of the advantages of the quarter system would be to lighten the course load per term for students and enable the Institute to attract more visiting faculty for shorter periods, James Bruce, chairman of the committee and associate dean of the School of Engineering, said yesterday...
...farfetched. The technology of North Sea production is indeed impressive. But the prospective financial benefits are hardly enough to send Britons into orbit. The nation last year suffered a $9 billion payments deficit; production from the small Argyll field off the east coast of Scotland-the first tapped-will lighten that load by only $140 million annually. The Argyll field and three others to be opened this year will supply a bare 2% of Britain's oil needs...
...neared the end of his seven-day shuttle through the region last week, Kissinger tried to lighten the situation with some levity during a three-hour call on Algerian President Houari Boumedienne. "You should invite me to the summit," joked the Secretary of State. "I've met more Arab heads of state than some Arab foreign ministers." Kissinger obviously will not be welcome at Rabat, but he is confident that his gradualist strategy will be put forward by President Anwar Sadat of Egypt...
...problems. No one but he seems to understand the relevance of the Dreyfus Affair to the situation of the Jews in Poland. The actor playing Dreyfus doesn't feel adequate to play his role. The other actors all want bigger parts, and a few song and dance routines to lighten up the story...