Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nevertheless, in retrospect, the agents were guilty of "erroneous human judgment," as Montoya termed it. Moore's futile last-minute attempts in three telephone calls to reach the agents again on the morning of the shooting make the agency appear to have been lax. Yet Moore on each call apparently expressed no urgency. In one call at 8 a.m. she reached only an answering service, and on the other two calls she reached low-level clerks who were wholly unaware of who she was or what she wanted...
Then Visconti assumes a more somber tone. Konrad turns out to be a person of radical political persuasion. Helmut Berger is a conspicuously unreliable man to get close to in a locker room, much less in a demonstration; he is nevertheless required to convince us that he "threw himself into the student movement." This background, which is about as likely as Jean Cocteau in his youth going three rounds in the Golden Gloves eliminations, rather diminishes the credibility of Visconti's entire enterprise...
...Nevertheless Gato doesn't let up and gives you a full performance relatively unimpeded by the noise that surrounds...
...cover usually shows men and women of achievement. But all sorts of people at the center of major news events, including outright villains, also must be featured on occasion, not as a matter of celebration but simply as the magazine version of a front-page personality. Many readers nevertheless regard any cover story as the bestowal of an ultimate accolade. Clare Boothe Luce complained in the Wall Street Journal last week that "Elizabeth Seton, the first native American to be canonized as a saint, couldn't make the cover of TIME. But Lynette Fromme made...
...seemingly insignificant but nevertheless annoying example of this attitude took place in English 70. As students were busily filling out section cards, instructions were stated, "Write down your house,...if you live at Radcliffe, just put Radcliffe." A minor point perhaps, but one that sufficiently illustrates that Radcliffe residents, in the minds of some, don't share the house loyalties or individuality with which their Adams, Lowell, or Leverett counterparts are credited...