Word: outrightly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Polanski takes occasional excursions into outright fantasy, as when Macbeth has a feverish dream following his second meeting with the witches. But the scene is visually uninspired and mechanically clumsy. Faces and images swirl up out of the hags' cauldron, spin about, dissolve, disappear, as if in some hybrid of hallucinogenic nightmare and the kind of antique special effects that looked awkward over 25 years ago in Hitchcock's Spellbound...
...Columbia Spectator reported that HEW has also attempted to block the renewal of old contracts between Columbia and various government agencies. However, Columbia recently renewed a $2,000,000 contract with the Department of the Navy. HEW cannot veto any contract outright, but the agency is allowed to make recommendations on any contract between a university and a government agency...
...gives the school an incentive to educate its students well. The better educated and motivated the child, the more he will tend to earn, and the more the school gets paid. A deferred tuition system might thus prove very popular even with families that could afford to pay outright for their children's education...
...revenues from the Duchy of Lancaster, lands that Henry III seized from two rebellious barons in 1265. This revenue pays for the Queen's personal expenditures as head of state, including clothing (about $75,000 worth a year) and upkeep of Sandringham and Balmoral castles, which she owns outright...
When a writer is at a loss for anything fresh to say, he sometimes cannibalizes previous successful works of his own, or cribs outright from someone else. In The Screens, Jean Genet does both. Thinly disguised furnishings of The Balcony, with its bordello fantasies, and The Blacks, with its racial voodoo masks, go floating past in this five-hour play that most nearly resembles a roiling, debris-clotted river in flood...