Word: objectness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good-humored sidekick (David Hemmings), a terse, harried Scotland Yard operative (the excellent Anthony Hopkins), and an unflappable ship's captain who keeps his turmoil to himself (Omar Sharif). It is usually clear in these hairbreadth holocaust excursions exactly how they are going to turn out. The object is to obscure the inevitable, an exercise that Lester performs with great skill...
...object, said Ford, is to cut costly U.S. imports of "foreign oil by 1 million barrels a day by the end of 1975, whether by savings here at home or by increasing our own sources" (see charts...
...following the disclosure of the new proposal, graduate student members of the committees said they had discussed a similar proposal last year, had objected to it then and object to it now. They say it is merely another attempt by Harvard to get more money under its belt...
...incessantly wayward, he glories so thoroughly - albeit temporarily - in the corruption of authority, that he becomes the object of outrage, and much of the film's capacity for empathy is lost...
...bird? Was it a plane? Residents of Birmingham, Ala., who observed a strange object buzzing some 160 ft. above an open field recently knew only that it was not Superman. Actually, the small oddball aircraft winging at 60 m.p.h. was Jefferson County's new law-enforcement weapon out for a test flight. Designed and built out of balsa wood and plastic by sheriffs deputies (who are also model-airplane buffs), the new gadget patrolling the skies was a pilotless plane remotely controlled from the ground. The 8-lb. airborne arsenal can carry up to 2 Ibs. of smoke bombs...