Word: marking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mark Warda Clearwater...
Meantime, the SALT II draft that was signed by Carter and Brezhnev last June in Vienna was slowly wending its way through the Senate's complex ratification machinery. The Foreign Relations Committee's nine Democrats and six Republicans last week continued ''marking up''-going over line by line-the proposed resolution of ratification. During the ''mark-up,'' amendments can be introduced and voted upon by committee members. Among the most notable offered last week were several by Minority Leader Howard Baker that dealt with the Soviet monopoly on large-scale...
Faster than a speeding dollar. More powerful than a Krugerrand. Able to leap national boundaries with a single telex message. Look! In all the banks! It's a mark. It's a franc. No, it's supermoney...
...madness is a desirable condition. Di rector Joan Micklin Silver lets the action and Heard's characterization veer close to the actual, unfunny sort of in sanity. Once or twice before the happy ending, it seems that something gruesome may be in the air. The quark, or question mark, involves this dark chanciness that finally proves to have foreshadowed nothing. It is intentional, of course, but a trifle heavyhanded; the viewer wants to laugh more loudly than the director permits...
Some of the humor, especially early on, is quite funny. When the characters first arrive in Paris, they seem as gauche as those prototypical U.S. tourists in Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad. Joel (Miles Chapin), a preppie who has come to Europe to dress up his college transcript, stretches his rudimentary French vocabulary into epic malapropisms. Alex (David Marshall Grant), an Oberlin aesthete, takes to reading Hemingway aloud and composing songs with lyrics like "Paris is a teacher who has lessons to give/ How to love, how to live." The lovesick Laura (Blanche Baker) turns sightseeing into a grim...