Word: slow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This sense of the room comes from memories of a Faculty meeting last spring. It was one of the first short-sleeve days of the year, the kind that slow down your cold-weather metabolism and make you lazy and listless. As President Bok called the meeting to order just after 4 p.m., the air in the room was sticky, and professors' heads were already starting to nod off to sleep...
...acting appears genuinely untouched by directorial hands. Certainly Cooper must never have heard of "pace," as it is indiscriminate throughout, with most scenes (such as "The Sneeze") unbearably slow and mis-timed. When a scene crackles and takes off, it is usually the result of a good performance; Jeff Harper, for example, who performs three startingly different roles with dash, bravura, and intelligence, is largely responsible for bringing off "The Drowned Man," an amusing episode about a sailor who'll drown himself for 60 kopecks. Jacques Semmelman plays a decent, if uninspired, Chekhov (the narrator), but in this contest...
...SALT: Vance believes that the most urgent priority in American foreign policy is to conclude a new strategic arms limitation treaty with Russia, to slow down the arms race and improve U.S. security. He is anxious not to let the growing domestic controversy over SALT influence the Administration's position in the negotiations. He believes that U.S. public statements on SALT should not foreclose further compromises on both sides. Brzezinski, on the other hand, has been saying that the U.S. has given all it can, and that further movement is up to the Russians. While Brzezinski supports the prospective...
...mostly involves charges that have been aired in the press and looked into by a Senate committee, is being directed by a trio of lawyers within the Justice Department, named by Attorney General Griffin Bell last November. The lawyers and their aides have presented some evidence in the glacially slow-moving investigation to a grand jury in Atlanta, since that is the area in which any law violation would have occurred...
Even with a more clear-cut ethics code, it will be no easy task to root out a number of legal practices that inflate clients' bills, slow down the due administration of justice and provoke public hostility. "Lawyers love to play games," says Dallas Attorney G. William Baab. The games are invariably good for the lawyer, occasionally good for his client and rarely good for society. Among them...