Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whole lot more. But what am I to tell Director Badham when he says to me, "I played by your rules for good horror movies. I got a smooth script and a great cast: Laurence Oliver is Van Helsing. I kept it playful and tongue-in-cheek: huge, somewhat stylized sets, plenty of action, a leading lady with nice tits...
...James Schlesinger, the intelligent but somewhat arrogant Secretary of Energy. He will be replaced by yet another sometime Georgian, Charles W. Duncan Jr., who was the president of the Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Company before becoming the Deputy Secretary of Defense...
...Jimmy Carter now at work behind the closed White House doors is not the Jimmy Carter we grew to know in the first 30 months of his presidency. It is true that he was from the beginning a somewhat elusive figure. But at the center there was a man of regular habits, kindly ways and comfortable personal characteristics. He did warn us last week that he was going to change "my life-style and my way of working." But the events of this week represent more than that...
...greatly enjoyed your article on procrastination [June 10. 1974]. It was a fine in-depth analysis of a problem we Americans must learn to deal with. I was going to write you somewhat earlier, but I have been extremely busy of late...
Certainly a film maker is entitled to alter a novel's text, but here both the choices and the motives are somewhat spurious. By grafting stylistic affectations onto an otherwise naturalistic movie, Kaufman blunts the raw power that, is The Wanderers' greatest asset. Like his characters, he would have fared far bet ter if he had stopped showing off and practiced a little self-control...