Word: pastes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Your government has considered revising the Immorality Act, which bans interracial sex. What other departures from past policy do you envision...
...wrapped up to listen." If Hoffman were still the glib hustler of the early part of the film, this self-recriminating speech would be a jolt-a screenwriter's ruse. But Hoffman's performance has so carefully delineated the alterations in Ted that his generous confession of past sins seems completely natural...
...than before to be a good mother to her child. The sudden pull of Streep's performance confuses loyalties even further. As Joanna gives her own account of her marriage and her efforts to recover from it, Streep painfully sheds layer after layer of the character's past. In a few minutes, she creates an entire life onscreen: the loving bride, the defeated, self-loathing wife and, at last, an independent woman. It is a devastating film-within-a-film-one that rocks not only the audience but also the ex-husband, who watches in the courtroom...
...going to sit back and take it!" He claims his company has been threatened with a $100,000 fine after three buzzards and a computer breakdown early this year had delayed deliveries beyond the 30-day limit permitted by FTC rules. The commission is investigating alleged delays over the past 2½ years...
...turning the agency from law enforcement to social planning. Last year a federal judge banned Pertschuk from all involvement in the children's television case, concluding that he had become too biased against the cereal companies. Other critics charged that Pertschuk was an intemperate, excessive regulator. In the past few months the chairman has softened his voice, and he even appeared jokingly at a staff party with a black raincoat draped over his head. He answers the accusations against him by saying that they reflect the agency's new effectiveness and that "the rules are beginning to bite...