Word: stubborn
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...chuckle. Too many of the scenes in Annie Hall strike home--like the one where Allen, peeved at being late, refuses to enter a movie theater two minutes into the screening. Compulsive, yes--but in the case of a movie as good as Annie Hall, that sort of stubborn insistence on seeing the whole thing makes a great deal of sense...
...their own these moderates might be prepared to make significant concessions, even though they too may be fearful about their future should a black majority come to power. In any case real political control remains in the hands of verkrampte (literally, cramped, or narrow-minded) Afrikaners-a proud, stubborn, Calvinist people with an imperious sense of their divine mission to lead Africa out of darkness. Reports TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs...
Boosters can sum up the agency's merits in one word: thalidomide. In 1961-62, the stubborn skepticism of FDA Pharmacologist Dr. Frances Kelsey kept that tranquilizer from sale in the U.S.-though it was marketed in Europe and Canada, where its use by pregnant women led to the birth of many deformed babies. Critics, however, can cite another name from the same period: MER29. The FDA approved that anticholesterol drug for use, then rescinded the decision when some people who took it developed cataracts...
...based, and the recreation of the Depression-era dustbowl is understated and evocative. David Carradine doesn't look or sound very much like the real Woody, and at times he seems so cooly laid back that it's hard to see in him the burning curiosity, wanderlust, and stubborn passion for justice that come through in Guthrie's songs and writings. Ultimately, though, Carradine's Woody works because he captures Woody's optimism and stubborn wise-ass anti-authoritarianism, creating a sympathetic but not overly worshipful portrait of a fallible, but human and memorable...
...something. I really think Mother sensed that we might take a stick to her if she didn't stop telling us what to do. So she decided to stop mothering." Lillie Mae, who returned to Kentucky after Guy died in 1973, says simply: "Lily was always a stubborn child, and I went along with a lot of things other mothers didn...