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...leading the film to a previously avoided mass-appeal glossiness. Distributed through Universal Pictures, Meaning of Life is the first Python film wholly backed by a major concern and released smack into the American commercial mainstream. The difference, which shows subtly in the film's professional polish, in its tilt towards topical satire and identifiable allusion, is not altogether encouraging...
Three shoestring movies tilt at the Hollywood system
...with 4.5% for Jimmy Carter and 7.2% for Richard Nixon. One aspect of the political pattern has even the Administration upset, however. Under the longstanding system of "senatorial courtesy," the President generally fills vacancies from lists provided by Republican Senators. This is one reason for the heavy white, male tilt, say Administration officials. They recently passed the word to Senate leaders that the President wants more minorities and women among the proposed names...
After the scoreless first 20 minutes, the Crimson put strong pressure on the Elis early in the second period, but Tortorella again prevailed. And after a glove save of Shayne Kukulowicz's sharp backhander at the 6.00 mark, the rink seemed to tilt the other way, and the Bulldogs took to the attack...
...Rubinstein onstage was to witness a master in his element. Striding purposefully to the keyboard while acknowledging the welcoming cheers, he would sit down, adjust the tails of his formal coat, tilt his face upward at about a 45° angle and stare intently into the middle distance as he composed himself. Then the great hands would rise from his sides and come down on the keyboard. The piano, with its intricate mechanism of strings and hammers, would cease to be a percussion instrument when Rubinstein caressed it; in his hands, it sang...