Word: unclear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people above Cooper all talk in phrases like that, in a sort of euphemistic, expense-account patois that manages to be placating and threatening at the same time. Screenwriter Roth's dialogue has just the right tone of misdirected menace, although what service it performs remains rather unclear. Director Robert Mulligan (To Kill a Mockingbird, Summer of '42) creates a muffled texture of perennial dusk, and stages some fine set pieces (like a good-humored birthday party that the street citizens give Cooper). But, like Roth, he mistakes obliquity for essence. The Nickel Ride is a film...
...Unclear Returns. Yet Kissinger's proposal was greeted skeptically by oil users and producers and its chances for broad acceptance seem uncertain at best. In Western Europe and Japan, which are far more dependent on OPEC oil than is the U.S., critics argue that the floor plan is mainly aimed at getting the rest of the industrial world to safeguard a big U.S. investment in costlier sources of energy. The critics fear that they would be locked into a long-term commitment to high-cost energy that would offer unclear returns far off in the future. Japan...
...rationing when it loomed for a time during the Arab oil embargo a year ago. But one recent poll indicates that slightly more than half of the U.S. population would now accept rationing if it were the only alternative to Ford's price plan. It is as yet unclear what kind of national constituency would back the Senate bill, introduced last week by Democratic Majority Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana and Republican Lowell Weicker of Connecticut, that mandates a nationwide rationing program "within 60 days." (Ford announced that he would veto that or any other rationing bill.) But support...
...mentality-a kind of psychological rolling in oil. Despite Pérez's reassurances, many small businessmen fear an "inflation of abundance" that has already driven costs up 15%. No American companies have pulled out yet, but since Pérez's intentions toward them are still unclear, they are wary about further investment. Foreign exporters, however, are quite happy at the prospect of a new luxury market-Venezuela has already become one of the world's largest importers of whisky, champagne and Cadillac Eldorados...
...finally, in its most sickening sequence, briskly and bloodily reduce a living squirrel monkey to a set of microscope slides. The excitement of the researchers rises to almost orgasmic heights in the process, though just what they are doing-other than transforming life into a sliced abstraction-is unclear...