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...film strikes a sometimes successful, sometimes tenuous balance between suspenseful diversion and romantic melodrama. Klute's character is never adequately probed, and there is an uncomfortable number of genre cliches, including a hoked-up terror-in-the-last-reel episode that lacks both terror and surprise. Worse, the sentimental fadeout runs completely contrary to the strenuously realistic tone the film has struggled to sustain...
Klein, who was hired because of his youth (27) and his experience as an assistant coach, is well aware of the challenges of his situation next fall. "When I applied for the job I knew it would be a tenuous position," Klein said. "I realize I will have to act as a mediator, but I am not going in with any set philosophy. My philosophy is that you can not judge a situation until you are caught in the immediate circumstances...
When West German Chancellor Willy Brandt signed the Treaty of Moscow last August, he tied its ratification to a successful resolution of the problem of West Berlin, which depends on tenuous lifelines that stretch 110 miles through hostile East German territory. Last week, as the ambassadors of the Big Four completed their 18th meeting in Berlin, it was disappointingly clear that no solution was in sight...
...WHAT is so attractive about membership in Opus Dei compared to parish life? "Many Catholics are dissatisfied with parish life," Griflin explained, "In many parishes there are 2000 families. Spiritual and human links with others in the parish are therefore tenuous...
That the recent expansion of the war and the discovery of oil are related is not too tenuous a connection to make. American industry needs oil, and the increasing demands of U. S. and European economies for larger sources of power mean that new sources of oil must be discovered and developed, since no one is prepared at present to risk investing billions of dollars in developing new sources of industrial energy...