Word: shatter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...process. By limiting the length of the constitutional convention, he hopes to force the delegates to get on with the job or risk new elections. By reserving the right to approve the finished constitution, he intends to prevent the enactment of provisions that could lead to turmoil or shatter Pakistan's unity. Two other provisions he has made appear to demonstrate Yahya's sincere desire to restore civilian rule...
...forces, not men. Accordingly, the leading roles are the sort one would find on a chessboard. In an essentially small part, Montand is again Camus-like, at once involved and lofty. Trintignant, more through skill than script, turns the abstract notion of justice into a driven man who would shatter his career rather than bend the truth...
...standard caper film, but for every step forward there is a thunderous pratfall back. If the Mafia man gets his sweater caught on a fender, it is sure to unravel, revealing his shoulder holster. If the Brain keeps fish in an enormous tank, it is certain to shatter, drenching the occupants of the apartment below. If the robbery is meticulously planned, it is sure to collapse into a three-ringleader circus, with no one the winner-except the audience...
Whimsy is asthenic fantasy, a fragile, elusive quality difficult to render but easy to shatter into sentimentality. It is a commodity perhaps best left to books and greeting cards. Enlarged and expanded to fill a screen, it can become an overbearing thing, as two new movies pointedly prove...
Nixon's November 3 Vietnam speech still might shatter that ultimate dream. If, as the press has speculated, the President proposes a unilateral cease-fire or the withdrawal of 250,000 combat troops by the end of 1970, probably no amount of local canvassing can convince Middle America that the end of the war isn't near. The student left in Sam Brown's coalition will go to Washington November 15 no matter what Mr. Nixon says, and his right will vanish back into its grassy under- brush...