Word: merit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sequel was made, however-The BNBs Fire Billy Martin, or some such -and now there is a sequel to the sequel. It is not accurate to say that it is without merit. There is one short scene in which Dick Button, playing a TV color babbler, describes the moves of a Japanese wrestler in terms of figure skating, the only sport his character knows anything about. This is an accurate satire of TV sports reporting, but nothing else in the film has any spark whatsoever. - John Skow
Wilmot insists that the SEC charges are without merit and dismisses criticism about dealing with Amin. Says he: "You don't have to believe in a man's political philosophy to do business with...
...most important concerns to the public servants was the proposed creation of a Senior Executive Service of 9,200 federal managers who could be transferred from one agency to another and who would be paid according to merit. Ruth Van Cleve, an Interior Department employee, expressed a common concern that such executives might be subjected to political pressure if they wanted to keep their jobs or get more money. Carter said SES membership would be voluntary; if its members were not happy in their posts, they could return to their old categories with full legal protection. Besides, the new program...
There are many unedifying quarrels among them all, and gradually we learn that one daughter is miserable because Daddy didn't love her, another because Mommy failed her, while the third was left out by both. If the movie has any merit, it is in its middle passage, where we see how, as adults, the three young women still seek compensation for the parental debts left over from childhood. But good performances by these actresses can not really compensate for the desperate sobriety of the film, which robs it of energy and passion, so that it seems to congeal...
Although each artist has been individually acclaimed on the merit of his or her own work, the Evans influence is unmistakable, especially when there is such close available comparison. This is not to say, however, that while influenced by the same man, the photographers appear in any way related to one another. Arbus's portraits of human oddities bear little resemblance to Alston Purvis' color details of plain doorways and windows other than the similar oblong shape of their frames. As the catalogue to the exhibit states, "Each one saw a slightly different side to the man, and Evans...