Word: patly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discontent. The press, however, can be faulted, particularly in the earlier stages, for describing the opposition, in the simplicity of news bulletins and snippet coverage on TV, as "an unlikely coalition of left-wing extremists and conservative Muslims" who opposed the Shah's modernizing reforms. That was too pat, too close to the Shah's talk of "Islamic Marxists" arrayed against him, whom he dismissed. The capsule summaries also ignored the distress of the new Westernized middle class...
...Penguins, 20 years, 5 months. 19. 50 penalties. Islanders vs. Rangers, Zebra Ron Wicks. 20. Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton Oilers, 17 years old. 21. Boom-Boom Geoffreon, Denis Potvin and Gilbert Perreault. 22. The Birmingham Bulls. 23. Harry Howell of the New York Rangers in 1967. 24. Darryl Sittler. 25. Pat Hickey of New York and Danny Gare of Buffalo. 26. Once, as coach of the Islanders in 1973-4. 27. 8, for the Philadelphia Blazers. 28. The Minnesota Fighting Saints. 29. The 1970-71 Montreal Canadiens, coached by Al MacNeil. 30. Danny Bolduc Scored two third-period goals to lead...
...lives with his wife Pat, a painter, in a cabin north of town. Next door is a two-story studio outfitted with recording apparatus, as well as tools for woodcarving, instrument making and boat designing. In his younger days, Bok earned his keep crewing on boats and working in the shipyards, but his voyages now are for recreation only. The long trips he reserves for his imagination. "A song is a vessel you fill with your living," Bok once wrote, a definition full of fancy homespun that suits a man who calls himself "a traditional folk singer," but whose craft...
...support that included the peasantry, the middle classes who were supposed to benefit from the Shah's heady campaign of modernization, and the armed forces. Exactly what happened to that support will be debated for a long time. Without doubt the answer is more complex than the pat view of some American journalists who today try to argue that the Shah never enjoyed much support at home and was largely an invention...
...this film maker doesn't brood over trendy labels; he's willing to risk offending people to get what he wants. In Handkerchiefs, Blier uses the stereotypes to shock the audience, then lead it to higher ground. This is not a film for those who want the pat, right-minded answers of An Unmarried Woman or Girlfriends: it unfolds in the subconscious, where sentimental bromides about men and women give way to harder truths...