Word: objectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...against. It's such a self-conscious work, that every frame lectures the viewer on film and stagecraft both--and even though its technical precocity makes it something of an exhausting film to watch, you want to watch it over and over after it's finished. Kane is the object lesson in American movies--in itself, in legend, in its tradition. It's not the starting point, but the center around which everything else moves. It's a construct, not a natural--a device, not entertainment and it's never been a great popular success. Too self-serious to project...
...film over with glassy impersonality." So reads the description of Elvis Presley at age 40 in The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll. Rock musicians are stoned with praise and putdowns in this new anthology (Random House; $19.95). Elton John is called "a pudgy robot" who is "an object of pubescent sexual fantasy." Singer-Songwriter Joni Mitchell, writes Contributor Janet Maslin, did not recognize her "giddy romanticism" until she had recorded six albums. As for Janis Joplin, who died in 1970 of a drug overdose, Writer Ellen Willis notes that her revolt against conventional femininity "dovetailed with a stereotype...
...Affirmative Action program is a set of specific and result oriented procedures which a contractor commits himself to apply every good faith effort. The object of these procedures plus such efforts is equal employment opportunity. Procedures without effort to make them work are meaningless; and effort; undirected by specific and meaningful procedures is inadequate. An acceptable AA program must include analysis of areas within which the contractor is deficient in the utilization of minority groups and women, and further, goals and time tables to which the contractor's good faith efforts must be directed to correct the deficiencies and, thus...
Bukovsky, who has been the object of a worldwide campaign for his release, looked wan and ill after eleven years spent in Soviet jails, concentration camps and police-run lunatic asylums. "I am happy but not feeling well," he told reporters, holding up his wrists to show the marks left by handcuffs...
...U.S.S.R.," without mentioning Bukovsky. At week's end one respected Latin American newspaper. Buenos Aires' La Opinion, commented: "The exchange demonstrates that Santiago and Moscow have very similar concepts about the value of freedom and of people; both invoke elevated principles but reduce man to an object of barter...