Word: suggester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some observers see an inherent stubbornness in the Carter personality; hence Jimmy's almost defiant defense of an embattled aide. Others suggest a further element: simple geography, as with Jack Kennedy's Massachusetts (and Harvard) Mafia and Lyndon Johnson's Texas herd. Some black leaders note that Carter is more at ease with Southern blacks -as in the case of U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young-than with any Northerners, black or white...
...omens suggest that September will be a difficult-and possibly decisive-month for the Israelis and the Arabs...
...witty social satire-unless one counts the tired reverse-racist jokes she lavishes on the character of a sassy black butler (Robert Guillaume). The flatness of the conventional comic scenes can be painful; when two characters engage in a lengthy and unfunny food fight, a third appears to suggest lamely that "this is like having breakfast with the Marx brothers." Good jokes never announce themselves...
...paradoxical realities of vanning suggest another possibility. Perhaps the vanner's true destination is - the van itself. To grasp this radical notion, one may need to shift into metaphysical gear. Yet consider the vanner's relationship to the van: the true vanner has not merely romanced the motor vehicle in the traditional American way. Actually, the vanners have embraced and subjugated the homely panel truck and, with Pygmalion's zest if not his graces, have transmogrified it into something utterly new and distinct: a mobile monument to self. It is self-contained and self-containing...
...others suggest that Janssen may be selling the masses short. Fest's footage of Nazi atrocities and the wholesale destruction of German cities during the war never fails to stun audiences, even those Germans who have been immersed in an atmosphere of guilt for 30 years. Scenes of adulation by massive crowds, weeping women and adoring children often evoke nervous titters. But the film's emphasis on the manner of Hitler's rise to power is intended to explain just how he managed to lead Germans to such infamy...