Word: occurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Freedom of speech is guaranteed in the Soviet constitution but is in fact unknown; any serious critic of the regime is harassed, imprisoned and sometimes even threatened with execution. Strikes do not occur because they would ruthlessly be suppressed. All organs of information and communication are subverted to the purposes of the state...
...impossible. Even Adams' fervent admirers admit that he can be spotty: at best an artful cataloguer of flora and fauna, at worst a windy sentimentalist. Memorable passages occur only when his imagination roosts among furry creatures or in the mid-regions of myth. Give him anything more difficult to chew on than a bone, and things fall apart. The story of Rowf and Snitter is glutted with just such indigestibles...
Worse are the lapses that occur in the course of the action. Sellon, for example, mispronounces the word "elan" as "uh-lan." And one of the funnier lines in the play--Wyke's remark of his wife, "She couldn't get Johann Strauss to waltz"--comes out, "She couldn't get Johann Strauss to waltz." That means, I suppose, that she couldn't get Johann Bach to waltz, either. Moreover, any self-respecting mystery buff can tell you that a "mashie-niblick," that jolly skull-splitter, is a five-iron; Bloomfield ludicrously brandishes a driver. All this may sound like...
...Industry would know that they would be held strictly liable for whatever injury did occur," Soble said. "Practically, manufacturers, in consultation with the insurance companies, would figure out ways of assessing the potential level of risk and reducing that risk to an affordable level. The manufacturer himself would be the hardest regulator around. There would be self-regulation...
...film's tedious final half-hour is more ideologically right-minded than dramatically convincing. Mazursky never has figured out how to wrap up his movies. Yet along the way his script offers one moment of recognition after another. Some of the funniest occur when Erica and her female friends get together for in formal consciousness-raising sessions that are accurately described as "part Mary Hartman, part Ingmar Bergman." Mazursky has also written some moving scenes for Erica and her 15-year-old daughter (Lisa Lucas); he understands painfully well the bottomless angers and conflicting loyalties that divorce creates among...