Word: marlis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...performances and letting the play speak for itself. His direction of the filming, as always, is devoid of innovation but adequate for his task; he exploits slow zooms and cut-ins to create or relieve tension, and makes most shots as simple as possible. Unfortunately, a few simple mistakes mar the film: footage showing Caine moving a misplaced red raincoat was inadvertently included; pool balls are racked up in the middle of a game; and a camera crewman's shadow hangs ominously over a window...
...common suggestion for educational reform is that grading, being inherently unfair and restrictive, ought to be abolished entirely. Students are supposed to be nervous and cowed when faced with a teacher who has the power to mar their college record. Spontaneity and cheerful effort disappear, to be replaced by rote memorization and dreary cramming, or so the argument goes. The most ambitious of the critics have even managed, in good Marxian fashion, to link the dog-eat-dog competition for grades with the ruthless struggles in America's business world...
...Weekend at Mar-A-Lago...
...Regarding Mrs. Marjorie Merriweather Post's bequeathing as a presidential hideaway [Nov. 13] her estate, Mar-A-Lago, to the U.S. Government, I have a suggestion. Why not permit everybody who lives in a slum or a trailer park or sleeps in relatives Hide-a-Beds during the year to spend a weekend at Mar-A-Lago...
...Hernández himself who patched up the Popular Democrats after their 1968 loss. A lawyer from Ponce, the island's largest city after San Juan, he assumed leadership of both the party and the Senate in 1969 with the tacit approval of Luis Muñoz Marín, founder of the party, architect of the commonwealth agreement and, more than anyone else, father of modern-day Puerto Rico. This year Muñoz campaigned for his protégé. Hernández reorganized the Popular Democratic Party from top to bottom, replacing older leaders with...