Word: plain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such charges are extreme and often unfounded. For the most part, the inequality of wealth under the free enterprise system is the unavoidable price that must be paid for genius, hard work or plain luck. The equality of results demanded by many leftist reformers would stultify society; complete equality can only be enforced by dictatorship. Income-leveling experiments in Britain and Scandinavia have proved that an economy without reward for success produces social entropy. There is little incentive for anyone to do more than the minimum necessary to maintain his own standard of living. Argued Winston Churchill: "The inherent vice...
What grave robber could resist a target like that? The tumulus is still there, looming above the flat plain, a beacon and a challenge for China's archaeologists, a possible trove of treasures out-dazzling even those on exhibit at the Met. -A. T. Baker
...this play, he achieves the magic of the commonplace. His characters are plain-as-drain people, yet their fretful crises engage our affection and concern...
...HIDE IN PLAIN SIGHT Directed by James Caan Screenplay by Spencer Eastman...
...easy to think of James Caan as just another pretty face: a pleasant, inoffensive actor who is just right for light entertainments like Chapter Two. It is brave enough for him to play the leading role that of an inarticulate factory workerin Hide in Plain Sight, since it is the kind of small, sober film no agent would regard as a good career move." But this is also Caan's debut as a director. To choose this true story of a man trying to find and then recover his children, who have been abducted...