Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Service is bad; the waiters are rather brusque and apt to run off. When you catch up with them, they are somewhat supercilious and condescending, but they add atmosphere to the Newbury Street French dining experience...
President Bok, Dean Rosovsky. I, in this building, am usually referred to as Ann Spence's husband, though I somewhat more recently have been referred to in considerably less flattering terms...
...Administration needs to act quickly to create confidence by demonstrating that it has a strong policy to develop and conserve energy. Its pledge to let gasoline prices rise somewhat to discourage consumption is welcome, but long overdue. What is more, even at $1 a gallon, gasoline in the U.S. still would be much cheaper than in almost all other industrial nations. Controls on gasoline prices do not simply need to be relaxed; they need to be eliminated altogether. Only when gasoline becomes too precious to waste will people stop wasting...
...fault is surely not Field's or Leibman's. Each is at once tough and vulnerable and, above all, engagingly high-spirited. And their roles are well written. Norma Rae's somewhat checkered sexual history, we come to understand, represents the only locally available outlet for a venturesome, restless but essentially very moral spirit. She has, we see, merely been waiting for something more rewarding to occupy her energies and her realistic, feisty if untutored mind. The character of Reuben, the organizer, represents a triumph of sorts. He is the first accurate representation onscreen of a type...
Young blood is in the wings. The Thayers' long absent and somewhat alienated daughter (Barbara Andres) arrives with her current lover, a divorced dentist (Stan Lachow), and, more important, the dentist's 13-year-old son Billy (Mark Bendo). Billy is parked with the Thayers for a few weeks, and Norman takes a shine to the kid. He teaches him how to fish, and Billy, a bit of a smartass, brushes up Norman's archaic lingo with such modernisms as "suckface" for "to kiss." A brush with death further restores Norman's zest for life...