Word: modeste
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...kind of tacky little film that finds its natural home in small-town drive-ins and at those tattered old downtown theaters that specialize in double-feature action programs. Yet Gator offers the agreeably self-satirizing presence of Burt Reynolds and evidence that he may also have some modest talent for vigorously unsophisticated direction...
...chatter, polyunsaturated Salinger. Many of the big scenes, in contrast, are levelly written and directed with a certain reluctant reserve that gives them true intensity. The last scene especially, which reveals all about Billy Joe's tragedy, has a fine force that goes well be yond the modest limits this movie has set for itself. The scene belongs mostly to the man who brought about Billy Joe's death, a character acted by James Best with a kind of desperate dignity that does not permit self-pity. Best's performance contributes in large measure to the film...
...defeat in the Texas gubernatorial primary, was nominated for the vice-presidential slot on the McGovern ticket in a symbolic gesture by the Women's Caucus. Her being chosen as the first female of Wells' thirteen presidents, however, was anything but symbolic. The school, which has a modest endowment of $8 million, needed someone of note to help boost sagging enrollment. On the job since March, Farenthold, 49, has made this fall's entering class the largest in six years, but still sees recruitment as her biggest problem. Farenthold, a Vassar alumna with a University of Texas...
...yearning for the great plains and the ennobling wisdom of the red man. Also, presumably, his pectorals have not had a good workout since he returned home. So Morgan journeys back to America and goes out West, where he discovers his tribesmen in a sorry state, chased off their modest preserves by a bunch of scurvy trappers. Morgan sets about helping the Indians vanquish their oppressors...
...deal with the leftist gains before the next Assembly elections in 1978. Chirac favored a hard-line conservatism. Giscard urged a reformist approach that might win moderates away from the leftist opposition. The difference came to a head in June when Giscard sent the Assembly a proposal for a modest capital gains tax. While Chirac maintained a conspicuous silence, Gaullist Deputies in the Assembly drastically weakened the bill before finally passing...