Word: ness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Efforts to help the poor involve both motion and commotion. Their effective ness is uncertain. Vermont has tightened eligibility requirements for fuel assistance money, and though Republican Governor Richard Snelling has said that "no Vermonters will suffer needlessly from the cold this winter," others disagree. Former Lieutenant Governor T. Garry Buckley, also a Republican, says, "I guarantee the regulations will result in some elderly persons freezing to death...
...fortune from her designs. The movie is even less clear on that point, perhaps because Lee Remick, as Eugenia, does not touch on those hints of boldness and desperation that are implicit in the text. Robin Ellis might have brought to Acton more of the shrewdness and tart ness of his Poldark. As presented, the pair are so agreeable and handsome that one sees no reason for them not to get together...
Coming Home and The Deer Hunter, in any case, are only the beginning. Still to come is Francis Ford Coppola's long delayed $35 million Apocalypse Now, opening in August. Coppola has based the film on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Dark ness, translating the tale of savagery and evil from the Congo to Viet Nam. There, Marlon Brando, playing the Mr. Kurtz character, is a renegade Army colonel who has taken over a remote province and set up his own war against the Communists. Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) is sent to assassinate the rebellious Kurtz. The movie...
...Ness said, "Irrespective of King's approval or disapproval, it will be hard to sell us (the FHA) the idea of depressing the central section of the artery. We have not been shown sufficient transportational benefits to warrant the construction...
...Ness said that while there has been opposition to the central and southern sections of the highway at CAWC meetings, "response from the north (Charlestown) has been good...