Word: undoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...midst of Watergate, 40 years after the incident occurred, it has a certain sinister plausibility not widely evident in 1933. At the time, the newspapers reported some allegations that a big business cabal had hatched a "plot"-the headlines generally put it in quotes. Its aim was to undo F.D.R.'s power and install a "Secretary of General Affairs" to take effective control of the Executive as a dictator...
...were more smiles and handshakes. With this ceremonial display of affection, the talks on the future of Viet Nam were reconvened last week. At stake, once again, was peace in Indochina; Kissinger and Tho, it was hoped, would figure out ways to stop the continued fighting that threatens to undo the cease-fire agreement they negotiated last winter. But when Kissinger emerged from the first of several expected meetings with Tho, his only comment on the progress of the talks was a noncommittal "okay." Everything, clearly, was not okay...
...Ryan took Tatum while the mother kept Griffin. When Director Peter Bogdanovich suggested that O'Neal and Tatum costar, O'Neal leaped at the chance. "I felt if we did this movie together," he says, "my God, we'd be connected for life. It would undo the years we were not together...
...sense, the basic Indian demand is to undo history...
...STILTED tones and stylistic affectations, that often undo these stories. Many of them would be better if he could get away from simplistic generalities and vague impressions. Because, overlooking their constant repetition, there's nothing inherently wrong with his Demianesque adolescent themes. It is the hazy, romantic visions of the past, found even in the later social criticism, "The Homecoming," that smack of trite remembrance...