Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...given a big title and small responsibility. He is put in charge of something like "special markets" (meaning Negro markets). If he is in a management line job and reaches a certain level, he is shifted off the executive escalator into a staff position or limited department with scant chance for further promotion...
...hundred sentimental musicals that preceded it (It was based on Lubitsch's 1940 film, The Shop Around the Corner) . But, very subtly and tentatively, Prince was tinkering with the conventions. The normal, large singing-dancing chorus was stripped down to about six members. The book was scant, and songs, rather than being integrated into the text, often formed whole scenes in themselves. Prince also toyed with the device (belonging to both the Greeks and Brecht) of using the chorus as a musical commentator on the action...
...takes what he wants from Topaz's script and undercuts the rest. What he wants seems to be situations; the rest, sentiments expressed in the dialogue. Topaz has more existential variety and less emotional intensity than any of his previous films. New people and places follow each other, evoking scant reaction from the hero and his closest associates. The film has at least four beginnings and endings, but its characters do not change in the slightest. Hitchcock does not even motivate their actions...
...carried to excess, pro-Israel passions might also be self-defeating. Every American President since Truman has materially supported Israel's sovereignty. Even Nixon, despite his scant debt to Jewish voters, despite lobbying by the oil industry, which wants good U.S. relations with the Arabs, despite his talk about "evenhandedness," has not really turned the Government to a new course. For this, he has good reasons and widespread support; opinion polls have consistently shown strong backing for Israel. Says Dr. William Wexler, chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and one of the leaders whom...
...stirrup designed by 2nd century Asian warrior horsemen to the sophisticated creations of the last two world wars. From the 1916 tank evolved the bulldozing tractor. World War II was a veritable cornucopia: the first aerosol bomb, radar, the jet aircraft engine, and the ballistic missiles that, a scant generation later, took man to the moon. And of course that dubious bequest, thermonuclear energy leashed in the Bomb. That weapon redefined war. For the first time, man held in his hands a weapon that could destroy the earth and all living things upon it-a weapon so powerful that human...