Word: loosens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Topper. A couple of decadent ghosts (Cary Grant and Constance Bennett-- who is disqustingly cutesie here) try to loosen up a stodgy and henpecked banker (Roland Young, well-cast). We are supposed to sympathize with the decadent ones and think that they've found the only way to live: the only trouble is that their idea of living is more than having harmless drunken fun--they're selfish and cruel and irresponsible throughout. This is a thirties high society movie that you just can't pardon. It isn't even very witty. With Billie Burke, the Good Witch...
...quirks and secrecies of his inimitable shorthand, it discovers how deeply regional an artist he was. His leanest years were in Paris in the early '20s when, he claimed later, he was obliged to live on dried figs and use the hallucinations caused by hunger to loosen up his imagery. Even then Miró managed to raise the money to journey back to his family village of Montroig, a community of farmers and peasant craftsmen, where he spent six months of every year...
...brilliantly. In the Orange Bowl, an acrobatic touchdown catch helped Penn State defeat L.S.U. 16-9, and Nebraska beat Texas in the Cotton Bowl 19-3 with a breakaway running attack. The message was clear: this year's college players will offer the pros a bright chance to loosen up their game...
Most members of the economists' group concluded that there was cause to be deeply concerned-but not to be unalterably pessimistic. Recession can be avoided if the Arabs loosen the oil spigot and Europeans recover their confidence. Professor Rolf Krengel of West Berlin's Institute for Economic Research emphasizes: "The psychology is extremely important. If people believe there will be a recession and start cutting their expenditures so as to increase their savings, they will help to bring about the very thing they fear." A fear voiced by some American economists that a prolonged Arab oil squeeze would...
...Europe may well have developed alternatives to imported oil-coal, nuclear power, and North Sea oil-that will loosen the grip of Middle East politics on its economy. Chevalier cautions, however, that the alternatives will not be cheap: "The era of inexpensive abundant energy has ended...