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...genre films: westerns, war films, science-fiction and detective melodramas, among many others. The critical consensus has always been that genre restricts, an attitude shared still by condescending, if blind, people like Pauline Kael or Bosley Crowther. But for all the mediocre westerns churned-out which reaffirm genre as tantamount to cliche and formula, we have Hawks's Rio Bravo or Ford's The Searchers, both of which use genre background as a means of allowing their protagonists the fullest range of individual expression. For all the cheap detective thrillers, we have Lang's The Big Heat with its articulate...
...take turns reporting to army garrisons for four hours a day of marching. Some also got trips to the army barber and showed up for their regular jobs with considerably shorter hair. Pacheco's point was to "militarize" the clerks, a status that could make their next strike tantamount to desertion, or at the very least cost them their treasured pension rights. They were not among last week's strikers...
...problems, since it has until now enjoyed some of the highest tariffs of any EEC member. The new French quotas are designed to keep imports of affected goods from rising any more than 15% above last year's levels. Yet in some cases the quotas will be tantamount to a total freeze on imports. Italy, for example, has sold at least 30% more appliances in France so far this year than it did in all of 1967-with the result that it has already exceeded the new French levels. Indeed, France's five Common Market partners, which last...
...failed to indict the lending institutions for taking their "pound of flesh" from the already harassed home buyer. The questionable fees charged for making the loan and the "tribute" the seller must pay in points charged against him when a buyer seeks an FHA loan are tantamount to fiscal blackmail...
...questions now troubling the nation are, "Should an ailing politician be given a drug to remedy his malady before an election race even though the medicine is intended to treat his illness rather than stimulate him to run more effectively? Would this not be tantamount to making an unsound person sound for a certain length of time...