Word: sweeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sweet-Sour Strategy. The British response to the truce, in fact, was almost begrudgingly small. After holding out the hope of an eventual end to internment, Rees dismayed even moderate Catholic politicians by releasing only 25 prisoners (five of whom were Protestants) of the 533 still interned in the notorious Maze prison and offering three-day home leave to 50 others. Moreover, British authorities would not even consider British withdrawal from Ulster-the principal I.R.A. demand...
...whole, however, Rees' sweet-and-sour strategy was approved by many Ulster loyalists, as well as by a Parliament whose mood has noticeably toughened since last November's Birmingham bombings, which took 20 lives. Commented the London Times: "The Provisional I.R.A. is of such a nature that it will be checked by one thing and one thing only-defeat...
...this sounds familiar: a cleric (William Marshall) doing some archaeological research in a distant land unleashes the spirit of an ancient demon. Back home across the sea, his sweet, pretty daughter-in-law (Carol Speed) starts acting up. Her sexual passion is unquenchable. Her vocabulary becomes raunchy, and her voice turns coarse to match. She knocks her husband around, makes the windows shake and the furniture jump and is even responsible for a death or two. Medical science cannot fathom her symptoms. Is she crazy? Or is her trouble-as someone ominously and predictably puts it-"something else"? Only...
...from an Indian simply as any other application, or even as any other minority application. The same goals simply don't apply. For instance, all this business of a professional career as the end of your existence--you know, you make a lot of money and you have a sweet life--Indians don't see that as the ultimate good. Their ideal is to make a contribution to the community. Of course, that's not true in every case--you have some people who are just looking out for themselves--but I think you do find a sense of purpose...
Murder on the Orient Express emphasizes the sentimental aspects of the Agatha Christie novel it's based on. It presents no layer of cynicism to be penetrated, the kind of tough-minded shell Bogart provided to make sure the final pill wasn't too sweet to swallow. The moral situation on the Orient Express is black and white, and the detective shares everyone's assumptions about right and wrong. There can be no classic confrontations because at bottom everyone agrees. This film doesn't have the kind of hypnotic effect that leaves you spouting its dialogue days later...