Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...informal Richter scale of movie terror, Play Misty for Me registers a few gasps, some frissons and at least one spleen-shaking shudder. A good little scare show, in other words, despite various gaps in logic and probability...
...only because of the youthful, limber bodies of the Jeffrey dancers, Weewis is often lovely to look at. But like so much other contemporary choreography, it is limited in its impact to fleeting moments. Logic, emotional consistency and meaning are sacrificed to shallow audience appeal...
...simple-minded a tack in his relationship with the American people. In burlesqueing such simplicity. Roth and De Antonio can only hope to force some concern over the degenerate state into which political language has fallen. Our Gang is hardly a partisan effort. Although there is a curiously inconsistent logic beneath the book--refusing, for example, to parody Martin Luther King or Lee Harvey Oswald while socking it to Jacqueline Charisma Colossus--as with Millhouse, the enemy is not so much one particular man in power as it is those forces which permitted him to find his way there...
Jackson attempted to apply this logic to his own life. Rather than trying to win an education in one of the prison vocational schools, he inaugurated a program of intensive self-education. This does not mean that he stopped going to prison classes. To a large degree, he did not have such an alternative. But he purged himself of all vestiges of the feeling that if he did not learn through the system he would not learn...
...that logic Chevrolet dealers may not mind a special consumer-protection bulletin that Toms issued last week. Well armed with evidence (500 documented case histories plus daily complaints from Chevy owners), the NHTSA warned that the engine mounts can give way on Chevies that were built in the model years 1965 through 1969-a total of about 5.6 million cars. The mounts consist of a layer of rubber bonded between two metal plates. When a mount gives, the engine can twist from its moorings while the car is moving. When this happens, it is possible that the gear shift will...