Word: merit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would have us believe there is nothing else worth seeing this week when compared to the Mario Puzo/Marlon Brando blockbuster, so we'll play it their way. Actually, this isn't bad movie. The critics said it was one of the rare films that mix mass appeal with artistic merit, and that is probably true. As you watch it, you should be mildly offended that NBC paid Paramount $10 million to show it one time, and that NBC in turn charged advertisers about $200,000 for one minute of air time. Fuck 'em by turning off the set during...
Concerns from college administrators over the confidentiality of some of the documents in the files have merit, Kwapisz says. Still, he defends including colleges and universities in the bill's jurisdiction, "because we don't think students should have fewer rights in higher education than they or their parents have at the lower level...
...voters of California have approved a stringent anticorruption measure. But there is also a tendency to condemn prematurely and to burn today's leaders with the laser of hindsight. It is a particularly painful period both for public leaders and for a people in need of leaders who merit confidence...
...commercial theaters to the university community for the benefit of students of the cinema and anyone interested in the medium and (2) to provide a forum for the primarily aesthetic questions about films and film-making raised by the pictures shown. Film societies select movies for their artistic merit and/or their importance in the history of the craft...
...When he said that, I explained that the only reason we were showing the film was because of its artistic merit--it was the first really big film to hit America. I invited him to speak before the film--to say anything he wanted...