Word: raring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when both entertainment and professionalism in aid of amusement, that not very grand but very basic commodity, are in short supply at the movies. Perhaps it is because the picture comes so close to being something more than entertainment, comes close not to art but to something almost as rare-the genuinely delightful -that one comes away from it uneasily, vaguely disappointed...
...rest is gravy. If someone comes up to you and says that your irony made them change their values in life--well, that's a tremendous, rare feeling...
With the 1978 campaign now rousingly under way, Democrats and Republicans are engaged in furious battle. But on the major issue they have achieved a rare consensus. Both parties are scrambling as adroitly as possible to respond to the tax-cutting fever that is sweeping the nation (see page 48). Historically, this is a Republican cause; yet much to the indignation of the G.O.P., the Democrats have embraced it as well. Since most Democratic candidates can also make full use of the advantages of being incumbents, G.O.P. gains in November are expected to be minimal in the 435 races...
Actual suicides by children under 14 are still rare; fewer than 200 a year occur in the U.S. But investigators are finding that attempted suicides and deep depression are unexpectedly common among emotionally disturbed youngsters. Psychiatrist Joaquim Puig-Antich of Columbia University, who has conducted a pilot study in this little-explored area, estimates that perhaps one out of every 200 American prepubertal children is despondent enough to think of suicide. Of the 50 depressed children he has treated over the past three years, 70% had suicidal thoughts and about a third had tried to kill themselves...
...advisers" in Viet Nam in 1964, before the war was thoroughly Americanized, has the virtues of its defects. It is understated, lacking in powerful dramatic incident and high human emotion, and rather flatly written and directed. As a result, it has about it a realistically antiheroic air that is rare enough in any movie about any war, and a grubby brutality that matches memories of the news film that came out of Southeast Asia in the '60s and did so much to disgust the nation with U.S. involvement there...