Word: pawned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...related to neither The Thief Who Came to Dinner nor The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun. The comedy, just about as witty and well-turned as its title, centers on the catastrophes that befall a sad-sack classical musician who is selected as a pawn by a couple of squabbling espionage outfits. Made in France, probably by rote, the movie might have remained there had it not contained several sententious asides on the evils of electronic observation and every citizen's right to privacy. They lend a certain topicality, a tone of lighthearted caution, which...
...nothing to do with the universe (the stiffness of numbers, grammatical constructions) and the universe, which has nothing to do with the names we give or seize our leverage by. Let man take his reasoning place, expecting nothing, since man is not the invisible player but the player's pawn. Seize the whole board, snatch after godhood, and all turns useless waste. Such is my story...
Ackerman said that he wasn't sure if the radical groups were sincerely interested in reforming the University through the Commission or "if they just want to show that we're a pawn of the Administration...
...Patrick Gray, a key pawn in the growing stalemate between Congress and the Nixon Administration, was removed from the board last week, but not before one last attempt to salvage his confirmation as director of the FBI. For weeks, the White House, at least in public, had stuck by Gray while he was being grilled in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for his partisan handling of the agency and the Watergate investigation. But his testimony had deeply embarrassed several top Administration officials and disillusioned some of his supporters in Congress. Finally, at the White House's bidding, Attorney General...
...that the limitations are a dead letter. GSD films plans to show "Slaughterhouse-Five" next year (which complies with the two-year guide "Cabaret," (which will not). And the educational" criterion is even less of a hindrance. GSD, for example, showed "Little Big Man," "Putney Swope" and "The Pawn-broker" under the general educational theme. "Social adaptation to a changing environment...