Word: threatenings
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...images: Newton skidding down a hill against a primordial New Mexico landscape; crossing the blasted wastes of a distant planet; Newton, finally without earthly disguise, standing as he really is before a terrified Mary-Lou or removing contact lenses from his yellow, glowing eyes. Roeg's skills always threaten to outbalance whatever he sets them to, and that has happened here. The movie, in all ways, is not good enough...
...United States has managed to forget the years devoted to crushing the "Communist island within ninety miles of our territory." Neglect has proved to be a simpler policy than military invasion. Extremist groups may still throw a hand grenade down the gangplank of a Russian cruise ship or threaten the airlines of countries resuming diplomatic relations with Cuba, but the lurid billboard in San Juan that showed Cuban soldiers executing prisoners before a bloodsplashed wall disappeared years ago. Hardly anyone remembers its inscription...
...humbles herself a little--there are too many jokes about the shrewish type. When a woman says no, her body tends to find ways to soften or deny her words; Chesler and Goodman call it using her body "deferentially." She adopts certain mannerisms as a way for daring to threaten, rather than to put men at their ease. It is more acceptable for women than men to behave childishly, thereby rendering themselves less imposing as sexual beings...
Before then, several problems threaten to derail the bold experiment. Stockholders and creditors of the six bankrupt lines have vowed to fight for higher compensation for their property, which could boost the eventual payout well above the $685 million in stock that ConRail is now offering them. Pressure from local politicians might force Con-Rail to keep unprofitable segments of line in service. Then there are labor difficulties. By refusing to give up archaic rules and procedures, railroad unions have aborted a planned $66 million sale of almost 2,700 miles of track to the profitable Southern and Chessie railway...
...Harvard Police are currently consulting administration, faculty, and student opinion about enlarged data banks since some may fear that computerized descriptions threaten personal privacy, Kahn said...