Word: specially
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hardly had Moon Landrieu taken office as a 29-year-old Louisiana state legislator in 1960 when segregationist Governor Jimmie Davis called a special session to resist federal integration orders. The vote in favor of ramming through the segregation package was 93 to 1. The dissenter: Moon Landrieu. Colleagues told him that his political career was ruined; his family was showered with death threats. "I certainly wasn't a Sir Lancelot," Landrieu now insists. "I was miserable because I couldn't figure out a way to evade or finesse the issue...
Five years ago, on the eve of President Richard Nixon's resignation, TIME published a 38-page Special Section on leadership. The world's problems, TIME said, often seemed to be overwhelming the capacity of leaders to deal with them. For its special section, TIME assembled a list of 200 young (45 or under) Americans who already were having a positive impact upon society and who might play pivotal roles in the nation's future. Today, the issue of leadership is more acute than ever. As Jimmy Carter struggles to rally a nation troubled by recession, inflation and the energy...
...special interests. Those arrayed demands do not necessarily correspond to the national good...
...Hunt: A Memorial Exhibition," "The Well-Dressed 18th Century Man," "Ceramic Treasures from Boston's Collections Past and Present," "The Sublime and the Beautiful: Images of Women in American Sculpture," "A Tour of the British Isles" and through Aug. 12, "The 18th Century in France: Paintings and Furniture." Film special: Aug. 7 at 7 p.m., "A Nous la Liberte," musical satire on mechanization. Nonmembers $2; members $1.50; no museum admission charge...
Individual shots are often quite striking, although they have their share of phony backdrops and obvious bits of processing. But nothing really propels the images into each other. It's not the editor's-fault; Badham just never bothered to devise a cutting style, so special effects pop out at you mechanically, unsurprisingly, without the right build-up, like creaky hobgoblins in a decomposing funhouse. And because his close-ups are so brief and his cutting so nervous, we're never close to any character for long enough to build up any identification. The movie is thoroughly uninvolving...