Word: selfishnesses
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...seem to suggest, both through explicit statements and not so subtle innuendo, that anyone who supports Nixon must be as selfish, money-dominated, obtuse and unprincipled as you perceive the President...
...Ullmann plays the selfish and sensual youngest sister and Ingrid Thulin the oldest, who has imprisoned her feelings in walls of ice. Harriet Andersson is the sister who dies of cancer, quite visibly and painfully on the screen. Not only are the interiors of all the rooms red, but whole scenes are periodically suffused in crimson hues. "Don't ask me why it's to be that way, because I can't tell you," Bergman writes in his screenplay. "The bluntest and also most tenable [explanation] is probably that the whole thing is internal, and ever since...
Jaimie (Scott Jacoby) is a ten-year-old kid with a chart-shattering IQ who nurtures a selfish affection for his mother and yearns for his deceased father, a TIME editor who had always wanted to write a novel. Jaimie's mother Christine (Joan Hackett) makes quite a nice living, thank you, running a small gallery on Madison Avenue. She and Jaimie are great chums until she meets a whimsical New York tour guide named Peter Simon (Robert Klein). Peter woos her by parking his Volkswagen bus on a wharf and regaling her with tales of his childhood...
...radicals will circulate an 50-page pamphlet entitled Introducing Harvard to explain their viewpoint. The pamphlet explores Harvard's alleged rule has In-dochina War research and development, links between the University and large corporations, and charges Harvard win a selfish, expansionist attitude toward the Cambridge and Roxbury committees...
...most important dabblers in foreign exchange are not slick and selfish private operators but the sober-sided officers of banks and multinational corporations. Occasionally they try to turn a quick profit by capitalizing on oscillations in the value of one currency or another. But usually they are merely trying to protect a routine sale, loan or investment from loss due to an unexpected dip in some currency. Volkswagen, for example, takes in billions of dollars each year from U.S. sales. When the dollar quivered at the start of last summer's currency crisis, VW executives reportedly transferred as much...