Word: loses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large organizations--and he seems to wish the myths were true, even though he knows they aren't. Latter-day Icarus Brewster McCloud falls to his death in the Houston Astrodome; McCabe is killed by the corporate goons; Philip Marlowe plays the sap; the gamblers in California Split lose. Maybe that's not the way you'd like it, says Altman, but that...
...people laughed because they were genuinely funny. Sister Mary Elephant, for example, will live on. But somewhere along the line Cheech and Chong decided the easy way to make a fast buck was with a movie like Up in Smoke, encouraging their audience to get stoned enough to lose sight of the unfunny, inane, dull quality of the film in the smokey haze...
...even reviving legislation that his opponents thought they had killed. He and Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joe Califano decided to resuscitate the hospital cost containment bill, which was suppressed in committee last summer by pressure from the medical lobby. Carter probably figures he has nothing to lose politically since the public is angry about inflation in general and about soaring medical costs in particular. In August, hospital costs rose .9%, second only to the 1.1% leap in gasoline prices. Carter originally asked for a 9% ceiling on annual hospital cost increases. Compromise bills have now been proposed...
...originally conceived the Complaint-Mobile project: "Many people simply can't afford lawyers, and they don't need them. They simply have to demand their rights. Most businesses know that people do not complain and even if they do, they'll go away if they lose Round 1. We're just helping them get what they should be able to get for themselves. This is a government program that works, and it works without clogging the courts...
...philosophical side of running a university. No specific plans or policies will emerge, and as he waves his right hand, and shifts his position on the couch, he seems to believe that if he has the right attitude toward the minefields which await him, he won't lose any limbs...