Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crichton departs from the formula in only one respect: whenever possible, he forces gratuitous cruelty between cliches. Dogs chew rats. A prisoner escaping from Newgate slices up his hands climbing the fence. Connery later strangles this poor innocent in cold blood. The funniest gag in the movie involves a decomposing cat. Nothing new for this butcher. In Crichton's Westworld, the most satisfying fantasies are also the bloodiest--robots blown to bits; one remembers brains being sliced up, organs flung about, dead bodies on dissection tables in Coma; now, Crichton gets his kicks injecting sadism into kiddie-movies. Bleah...
...Middle East peace efforts. Bull-feathers! Even the majority of his critics would acknowledge that whatever takes place between Egypt and Israel, Carter's effort to conclude a peace was courageous and worthwhile. This is one game in which winning isn't necessarily everything; Americans still respect good causes, lost or otherwise...
...failing to achieve real leadership of the nation, Carter has so far proved unable to break post-Viet Nam, post-Watergate mood of bitterness and distrust that, in part, brought him to office. He is treated with less respect by the public, the Congress and the press than would be expected of a man of his record and rather benign personality. All this has produced a sense of regret in the President himself. "The duty of our generation of Americans," he noted last week, "is to renew our nation's faith-not focused just against foreign threats, but against...
...principles laid down by Chairman Mao. I must also say that in carrying out these policies, there were obstructions in those days. And in the latter years of his life, because of his poor health, Chairman Mao was not able to remove some of these obstacles, so in this respect we cannot say that the Chairman was devoid of responsibility. But we are still building up our country according to the blueprint laid down by Chairman Mao and Premier Chou...
...Duey said she thinks the posters "are just a manifestation of deeper division" within the club leadership. Other club members are hesitant to carry out "risky" policies because they are afraid the community may lose respect for the club, she added...