Word: relief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Minister Morarji Desai's Janata Party hopes to capture it in elections next February. Inevitably, there were charges from New Delhi that the state had been negligent in failing to warn villagers and careless in rescue efforts. In truth, emergency operations were reasonably effective. If anything hampered the relief effort, it was the seemingly endless helicopter inspections by officials seeking credit for coping with the disaster...
...closing sequences of the film provide some of the most awesome footage in movie history, portraying the beginnings of man's ascent and the possible end of that progression respectively. The eery genius of the film's bookends has a way of throwing the rest of the narrative into relief, but any movie that features as original a piece of technology as HAL the computer has a lot going for it in the first place, so make those trips to the concession stand brief. The final 20 minutes are positively overwhelming as Kubrick hurls his wayward astronaut through a time...
Price says he felt not outrage, but a combination of relief and regret when he read the transcript. "I recall it as a time of sadness. On a selfish level, I was glad I hadn't known [about the June 23 tape]. On a less selfish level, I kind of wished I had. Even at quite some cost to myself, I might have found some way of handling it. I might have ended up in jail, but it would have been worth it to salvage the presidency," Price says. "There were larger things at stake...
...series of proposed energy taxes that would reach right back into the pocketbooks of middle-class Americans and business people. There are still echoes of Jimmy Carter's campaign promises to push for major tax reform, and that could wipe out many of the small harbors of tax relief...
...this be justified, legally or morally? Feminist groups insist that it can. They say wives seeking relief from abuse come up against a bewildering series of societal pressures, as well as a legal system that is either indifferent or tends to regard it as a purely personal matter. Even when police encourage filing of complaints, women fear poverty if their husbands are removed and intensified abuse if they return...