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Word: possessed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...children, like so many young British performers, possess the happy talent of being engaging but never cloying, while the adult actors perform with the right kind of storybook flair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Edwardian Elegy | 11/15/1971 | See Source »

...enduring the change in American judicial history. In Assistant Attorney General WIlliam H. Rehnquist and Richmond Lawyer Lewis F. Powell Jr., the President appointed men who confirm to his standards of "judicial conservatism." Yet, especially in comparison with the dimmer talents that he had been considering, Rehnquist and Powell possess sufficient legal distinction to still most professional criticism and make their Senate confirmation seem probably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Nixon's Court: Its Making and Its Meaning | 11/1/1971 | See Source »

...conceding the Communists' claim to a seat, but was also engaged in an epic struggle to save a place in the General Assembly for the embattled, Taiwan-based Nationalist regime of Mao's old enemy, Chiang Kaishek. But with the special antimagic that the U.N. seems to possess in abundance, the buildup to the climax dissolved into hours of stiff speechifying, interspersed with moments of bizarre and totally unrelated melodrama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Two Votes That Could Change the World | 11/1/1971 | See Source »

...laughter aside, the chief virtue of Millhouse lies in the hatred it so provokes. For, unlike De Antonio's other documentaries (Point of Order. Year of the Pig), Millhouse eschews an analytic framework except for its constant reminders of the temptations that media politics possess for the political candidate (for although Nixon is its top banana, other national pols also appear in the film to stand similarly condemned). And yet, I would not be prepared to admit that Millhouse is a film that speaks only to those already converted to a hatred of President Nixon. Numerous though they...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Hey kids, what time is it? It's Richard Nixon time! | 10/29/1971 | See Source »

This 'correction' of historical fact amounts to an admission that accuracy would not possess sufficient emotional value. And this is patently absurd. There is absolutely no dramatic reason to reach beyond history. But Montaldo seems unsure of the clarity of his position, and thus tacks on this utterly superfluous moral summation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ...And on Screen | 10/27/1971 | See Source »

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