Word: safes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...takes the harder route: bare, muted landscapes filled with ravens, seals and deer. He is aware of the violence in the town and casual cruelty of the hunters. But the book's strongest writing is about the satisfactions of surviving a hard winter: wooden stoves, good drink, a safe journey home made in a blizzard. These are worth more than a tricky plot. Van de Wetering is an amateur who is good enough to get away with...
...best slogans simply by scavenging around in the mind: Does she or doesn't she? Even your best friends won't tell you. Ask the man who owns one. Say it with flowers. Up, up and away. Fly now, pay later. You're in safe hands. Plop, plop, fizz, fizz. Good to the last drop. The high-priced spread. Tastes good like a cigarette should. Leave the driving to us. I'd rather fight than switch. When it rains, it pours. We try harder. It floats. A diamond is forever...
...takes considerable artistic and economic courage for an established film actor to return to the stage--even in a "safe," commercial play like Strangers. But Dern has worried enough about being typecast to take that risk. Perhaps his publicly expressed feeling that there are similarities in background, education and personality between himself and Sinclair Lewis led him to overestimate Strangers, to judge it a far more significant play than it is. But Strangers does not serve the "daring" that we associate with even his most typical film performances, and perhaps no play in the commercial theater can. Film stars have...
...faster than production rose. But in the long run, low productivity hurts employment too. In the 1960s, it was thought that the economy could grow 4% each year without setting off a burst of demand-pull inflation. Mostly because of the collapse in productivity, the Administration now reckons the safe-growth ceiling to be 3%. An economy growing that slowly cannot create enough jobs for all the people who are looking for work...
...sloppy, but fiendish humor and scare tactics helped paper over the visual lapses. Train Robbery, paradoxically, looks gorgeous but lacks bite and narrative rhythm. The thieves carry out their complex scheme in a series of repetitive, evenly paced sequences, most of which involve the hijacking of keys to a safe. When you've seen one key theft, you've seen them all. The robberies are so perfectly planned and calmly dispatched that the culprits may as well be executing a recipe for steak-and-kidney pie. Even the hero's climactic sprint across...