Word: successes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Middle East has attracted more attention than any other international story since World War II," he says. "That is what makes the success of Carter's diplomacy so astounding. For the first time, a major part of the region's troubles are close to being resolved...
...butter issues with more confidence. People will look to him with more respect because of what he's accomplished. It was quite a gamble, but worth it." The Republicans made little effort to denigrate Carter's achievement. G.O.P. National Chairman Bill Brock said he was "delighted" with Carter's success and reckoned that it would provide the "international boost which [Carter] needs and which we all need...
...adolescents, even desperately mature undergraduates have been known to be nostalgic for 1974--it was precisely this rather self-indulgent "you-remember-how-funny-we-were" emotion that Cornelia Ravenal sought to exploit, and with some careful selection of material to fit her clearly defined audience, achieved great success. This leads to a second directionality in the show: the company sought to direct us emotionally in a way that might lead towards some sense of emotional growth of character and even an emotional conclusion. Now while the success of this on Friday night was extraordinary--the audience rose with...
...seen a static retrospective view of types at two stages of life, with little sense of growth between the two ages, which made projection into the "dream" of the future even more difficult. The main reason for this, paradoxically, lies in the main reason for the show's success, the egoism and talents of the performers. From the first moments of parody of the informality of improvisational theater, we were being asked to watch ctors playing parts rather than the parts themselves. The parts became vehicles for the considerable abilities and egos of the artists: it was always...
...productions and his obvious debt to and affection for earlier movie-makers have tempted a number of critics to consider him a clever contemporary heir to several 40s and 50s directors whose exciting grade-B films have been sauvely generalized under the label film noir. Just now, with the success of Halloween, more careful critics are insisting that Carpenter is not as good as all that...