Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resignation at the snippets it already knew−Carter's longing for a Government as good as the American people, Reagan's chant that the canal is ours, Ford's conviction that a Government big enough to run things is a Government big enough to threaten us. These became applause lines just as carefully prepared and as essentially empty as Joe Penner's "Wanna buy a duck?" once was. Only occasionally did a reporter's sharp question throw a candidate off balance. (Reporters live in the conviction, which is not universally valid, that anyone...
Slowdowns by electricians and plumbers threaten completion on time of various support systems, but none are serious enough to hold up any event. Sophisticated scoring and timing devices, for instance, have yet to be wired, as have the lights bordering the walkways into the stadium. But, says Olympic Park Boss Adrien Berthiaume, "if we have to run this thing like a country fair, then that's what we'll do. The world won't come...
...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...