Word: sags
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...actors--most notably the two stars and girl who plays Audran's daughter--infuse their roles with such life that they almost bound off the screen and take on three full dimensions. Chabrol was extradinorily lucky to have access to these quality performances, because when the story begins to sag--as it does in too many places--the actors manage to carry things along until the narrative begins to pick up again...
...there. In sports, in education, in politics, Philadelphia has traditionally been the butt of disparaging jokes. Philly is, after all, a dead town, a city of losers. The best thing you can say for the people there is that they know when they are beat. These days, Philadelphians sag with the sickening knowledge that they are in for yet another defeat...
...excessive bravado, Israel announced during the first day of fighting that schools would stay in session. The Allenby Bridge from Jordan was kept open to traffic, and, after briefly shutting down, Lod Airport was opened to international traffic. But as the fighting went on, civilian morale began to sag. "Oh God," said a housewife in Jerusalem last week as she went about preparations for Sukkoth, "we thought that this war would last for only two days...
Grateful farmers, who had been in revolt against the Republicans a year earlier because of a sag in commodity prices, voted overwhelmingly for Nixon. But the victory was scarcely celebrated before prices took off. It was not all Nixon's doing. A corn blight had reduced the supply of feed for livestock. By coincidence, the complex cycles for raising cattle and hogs also reached their low points simultaneously. At this rather inopportune time, the U.S. economy started booming, and demand for meat picked up. On top of that, a bad crop in the Soviet Union caused Moscow to turn...
Nationwide, dressmakers' production last year dropped 1%, and 6,500 jobs disappeared. As sales sag, costs soar. Wholesale buyers, after the midi misfire, are anxious to avoid stocking ,up on any one style. The result is that dressmakers have to offer greater variety to attract interest-at the expense of their profit margins...