Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just forget about electing representatives of the people and leave the whole bundle of wax to the umpteen thousand lobbyists who seem to be directing the traffic as it is? We could save ourselves the cost of some 500 Congressmen and their staffs and make a start at reducing the national debt...
...Tommy Lee Jones), is set to violins. The acting is out of a '50s B movie. In the effort to create as many suspects as possible, Kershner has directed most of his cast to come on as twitchy psychopaths. Brad Dourif, playing an ex-con chauffeur, manages to seem even more bonkers here than he did as an inmate in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest...
Although it could be many months before the SEC's charges come to trial, Wilmot's days as a highflyer in international aviation seem over. Last month Grumman sold its Gulfstream-manufacturing subsidiary to American Jet Industries, of Van Nuys, Calif. Its president, Allen Paulson, says flatly that Page will not be asked to help sell any more Gulfstreams...
...director has created some undeniably powerful tableaux: Evita's political rallies, her death and funeral have a dark and chilling majesty. But Prince is capable of sinking to Rice's simplistic level: Argentina's aristocratic class is symbolized by a phalanx of chorus people who seem to have stepped out of the Ascot Gavotte number of My Fair Lady. The director also cannibalizes his own previous work. Evita's portentous first-act finale (A New Argentina) is a dead ringer for that of Cabaret (Tomorrow Belongs to Me). The show's neo-Brechtian lighting scheme...
...thinkers, somehow emerged with originality unchecked. There is scarcely a field of public endeavor in the English-speaking world that does not bear traces of the public school imprint. Fighting oppressions as youths may have strengthened the graduates for the larger trials provided by life. Above all, the schools seem to have given their charges a sense of belonging together, a memory of childhood that they shared with their peers and never forgot. - Paul Gray