Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hulot, on the other hand, is just a pleasantly boring presence, a cipher who shows no feelings beyond a spaniel-like curiosity and momentary flutters of frustration that never approach the level of anxiety, let alone threaten him with breakdown. He and the people he encounters are scarcely less abstract than their settings, juiceless and lifeless. Going to a Tati movie for laughs is about as practical as going to an exhibition of Mondrian paintings with the same goal in mind, though the painter may actually excel the actor in terms of motion and emotion. · Richard Schickel
Argentina. It sounds good at first. Argentinians of all political persuasions this week blasted some documents produced by a functionary at the American embassy which warned that some legislation facing the Peronist-dominated Legislature would hurt foreign investment and threaten the long-term interests of Argentina...
...President Nixon issued from his hospital bed. Nixon conceded: "Confidence in our management of our fiscal affairs is low, at home and abroad." As to the freeze, which the President imposed against the advice of his aides, he said: "The freeze is holding down production and creating shortages that threaten to get worse." In a feeble echo of his former self. Nixon concluded: "We should not despair of our plight...
...side the skin kings are besieged by a host of imitators who threaten to glut even a market that sometimes seems insatiable. On the other hand there is the sudden appearance of a new and stricter legal definition of obscenity by the U.S. Supreme Court (TIME, July 2). Though the boundaries of the court's ruling are still unclear, they could well halt the skin trade's race to publish ever more explicit turn-ons. If forced to retreat, the magazines might simply succeed in boring their audience...
...femininity' stunts the female identity. Men justify themselves on pride for a world they have built and conquered, and the conquered includes women. Women are born and raised members of a subordinate class in a system of sexual power that admits no equality. When successful by masculine standards they threaten men, and feel guilty for doing so. When they exchange the male oriented language of femininity' for a man's vocabulary and a man's style they trade one form of identity denial for another. And this is why the Feminism that took shape in political action, that claimed...