Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mayor grandly ignored pickets from the Woodlawn Organization, a militant neighborhood action group, parading outside to protest its exclusion from the parent body. To charges that wardheelers dominate his program, Daley retorted: "What's wrong with the politician, if the politician is conducting his office in a proper manner...
...White Devil, evil wears its proper guise, disguise-and deceit. The sinister masquerades as the pious. Murderers dress as monks. Treachery promotes itself as loyalty. Love is feigned, so is madness, even death. The last deceit-self-deceit-is stripped away in Flamineo's final speech when he sees life as he has lived it: the consummate cheat, the ultimate vanity, the supreme counterfeit. At that moment, The White Devil becomes a tragedy of more than blood...
...life to attend ball games on Sunday, gave respectability to the sport. He lectured his players endlessly on strength of character and nobility of purpose. "Luck," he liked to tell them, "is the residue of design." He popularized "the Knothole Gang" and Ladies' Day-designed to attract a proper citizenry to the ballpark...
...added dimension of color, Antonioni has been able to do away with plot, characterization, and even music, elements which have detracted from the cinema for fifty years. Instead, the director concentrates on the purely visual, on the purely aural, and on the relationship between people and their environment, all proper pursuits of film...
...piece of machinery. In a person, if you have to have your tonsils taken out, you want to be absolutely sure they have to come out. That's why you have a specialist with the right equipment. It's the same way with a car. Without the proper diagnosis, you're in trouble...