Word: thorough
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...Beckett's play, intellectually difficult as well as theatrically so, must work as a philosophical exposition on the human spirit in a hostile world if it is to work at all. For that to happen the acting must be especially sympathetic and the play's principals must have a thorough grasp on the deep conflicts that come to the fore. That the Loeb's production is not a total success is only to be expected given the difficulty of the material. Nonetheless, the end product remains disappointing...
Nicholson can employ his rough, warming charm to get himself through a bumpy scene or an insufficient part, but he is usually a careful and thorough craftsman. "He simply doesn't care about the way he looks," says Director Roman Polanski. "I put a bandage on his nose during half of Chinatown, and he didn't object. With Jack, it's only the result that counts." Indeed, for Fortune he gets a weekly permanent to keep his hair Art Garfunkel-style kinky...
...making or causing to be made false or misleading public statements for the purpose of deceiving the people of the United States into believing that a thorough and complete investigation had been conducted with respect to allegations of misconduct on the part of personnel of the executive branch...
...inquiry went on, Rodino found himself confronted by an insoluble dilemma: the need to be fast as well as thorough. In closed sessions, Doar droned on and on, presenting the evidence that eventually filled 36 black loose-leaf binders-7,200 pages in all. By last month the whole inquiry was in danger of falling apart. The country was nodding off. "The committee is drowning in a sea of material," complained one ranking Republican Congressman who was ready to vote for impeachment. The Democratic leaders in the House pressured Rodino to get on with it. "Peter," said one top-ranking...
...longer term, Greenspan favors thorough review of the budget-making process itself, with an eye toward re-examining such historic "un-controllables" as Social Security and veterans' benefits that he says go to permanent and ever-expanding "fiscal constituencies." He suspects that the administration of federal programs has generated huge cost overruns that would have made lawmakers, had they foreseen them, think twice about voting affirmatively. Greenspan's question: "Are the programs really mandated by law? We should look into that...