Word: misguidedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In New York City, the News (circ. 1.5 million) commands 34% of the newspaper advertising, compared with 60.6% for the prosperous Times (circ. 887,000) and 5.6% for the money-losing Post (circ. 764,000). Onerous union contracts, high overhead and the start-up costs of a misguided (and now...
President Reagan's economic retaliation against the Soviet Union for its role in the Polish crisis is raising anew some time-worn questions. Do such sanctions work? Are they at best only symbolic? Are they perhaps misguided missiles that ultimately inflict more damage on the country imposing them than...
Lavishly choreographed by Danny Daniels, and at times hilarious, these forays into the protagonists' fantasy lives provide a welcome respite from the general gloom. As director Herbert Ross leads us relentlessly from one depression cliche to another--the deserted prairie highway, the Edward Hopper diner, the seedy hotel room complete...
Unfortunately, Scott makes an abrupt exit after the film's first half-hour, and we are left with his trigger-happy progeny. Director Harold Becker marches the pint-sized terrorists back and forth across the campus, back and forth,back and forth until he is absolutely sure that we see...
The choice is a difficult one. But to claim that we should sacrifice an insecure freedom for a secure bondage is a misguided assessment. Certain ends are at least as important as the ideal of nuclear disarmament; but following the majority view to its logical conclusion, nuclear disarmament can become...