Word: resulted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...antechamber to gentlemanhood, where the master now reigns in the person of Peter O'Toole. Discarding the shy, dry Donat approach, O'Toole becomes his own man, a conflicted figure changing imperceptibly from instructor to institution, like an elm turning, cell by cell, into petrified rock. The result is one of the slyest and subtlest performances in his career...
...Still, the boys are the same deferential crew; the school is ivied and kind, an eon removed from the kind of place Orwell considered "a tightrope over a cesspool." The only instance of sadism, in fact, is the disastrous decision to make Goodbye, Mr. Chips a musical. As a result, Leslie Bricusse was given license to inflict ten songs. Like the pupils' Latin lessons, the lyrics will not pass scrutiny ("He smiled. I smiled. We smiled. And the sky smiled too."); the melodies are scarcely more tuneful than a piece of hard chalk drawn across a blackboard. Even with...
...work of invention. They are rewriting the 19th century novel without meaning to. In The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles rewrites the 19th century novel and means every word of it. But his is a resourceful and penetrating talent at work on that archaic form. The result is more truly inventive and contemporary than a whole shelf of campus comings-of-age or suburban wife-swapping sagas...
...about one out of four illegal abortions, practically all of which are done without the proper hospital precautions, the woman requires hospitalization due to hemorrhaging or infection. The Association for the Study of Abortion reports that two women die every day as the result of an illegal abortion...
...Tufts breaks the contract by halting construction, it could result in a lawsuit that could cost up to $2 million. We operate on a small margin: that is mostly red." President Hallowell said...