Word: themes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Peterson said that since the president's report now usually centers on one theme, the money will better serve its purpose if it is earmarked for "The Almanac...
...Republican National Committee, is a woman with a cause. Only 22% of the electorate now considers itself Republican, and Mrs. Smith has decided that her party's image badly needs some sprucing up. Last summer, she got the R.N.C. to sponsor two TV shows on the theme "Republicans are people too," and now she is trying to persuade the nation that Republicans are funny. Come January, if all goes well, a 196-page book, Republican Humor, will roll off the presses, chock-full of the favorite thigh-thumpers of G.O.P. politicians...
Just Before Nightfall is among the very best of Chabrol's movies. It is cunning and deadly, made with a measured simplicity of style which suits the ruefully ironic rigors of the theme. Attempts to delineate a sort of arctic moral climate, to deal with shallow people and the deadness of lives, frequently end up either being superficial themselves or strangling on their own rage. Chabrol's particular achievement here is his ability to keep his distance and still preserve his passion...
That is a theme Galbraith has argued many times before. Nonetheless, any new book by the retired Harvard professor and onetime (1961-63) Ambassador to India is an event-even if he is a compulsive overstater of his positions. Connoisseurs of civilized wit and stylish prose will be particularly pleased with this work. In recent books-notably Economics and the Public Purpose, published in 1973, which argued for a "new socialism"-Galbraith has seemed tediously preachy. In Money he has recovered the gently acerbic touch that he displayed as a reformist capitalist, and that made popular such books...
...borrowed convertible. Said Lemmon: "If that didn't turn me off, nothing would." Despite such traumas, the first time was never the last for the Flemings' subjects. Actress Mae West, 83, who first performed for her music teacher at the age of 13, later elaborated on the theme. "I had a whole band one time," she disclosed blithely. "I was just fickle...