Word: restraints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party assembled last week in Blackpool for its annual conference, the union men were in an angry, rebellious mood over Wilson's tough wage-restraint policies. Said Frank Cousins, boss of the huge Transport and General Workers union, who quit the Cabinet 15 months ago to protest the deflationary measures: "We are almost at the stage of accepting that the workers are on one side and this government is on the other...
...smooth tautness of her husband's scrotum. Another woman (Sudie Bond) recites the doggerel couplets of a poem called Over the Hill to the Poor house. The fourth character, a man with a pipe, lies silently in a deck chair, exhibiting what can only be called amazing restraint...
...ideal, the policeman is supposed to mediate family disputes that would tax a Supreme Court Justice, soothe angry ghetto Negroes despite his scant knowledge of psychology, enforce hundreds of petty laws without discrimination, and use only necessary force to bring violators before the courts. The job demands extraordinary skill, restraint and character-qualities not usually understood by either cop-hating leftists, who sound as if they want to exterminate all policemen, or by dissent-hating conservatives, who seem to want policemen to run the U.S. in a paroxysm of punitive "law and order...
PAUL NEWMAN has approached his first directing assignment with an attitude sensibly balanced between ambition and restraint. His subject matter, highly conducive both to boredom and pretension, is the plight of a 36-year-old virgin (at least the ads say she's 36), played by Joanne Woodward. He works in a straight stream-of-consciousness style, using quick flashbacks intended to depict in reasonable measure the drift of his main character's mind. Sometimes these are a little irritating, but rarely more than that, and sometimes they're downright effective. Newman's use of camera is, in contrast...
...distinguish between radical leaders, yippies, McCarthy partisans, and other disaffected youths." Do you imply that in the dark, amid yelling, bottle throwing and insults, while faced with thousands of milling people, the police could sort out the four groups and could then apply the appropriate kinds of restraint? You must be dreaming. You say that no one "could have known which windows [thrown objects] came from." No trick at all when you ask hotelmen to spot for you, as the police did. You are also casual about thrown objects that start from the fifteenth floor; they strike hard...