Word: utterings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Miller termed the conflict of interest charges"utter nonsense...
...movie has two virtues essential to good pop thrillers. First, it plugs uncomplicatedly into lurking anxieties -- in this case the ones we brush aside when we daily surrender ourselves to mass transit in a world where the loonies are everywhere. Second, it is executed with panache and utter conviction. Possibly this is because Speed is the first feature for director Jan De Bont and writer Graham Yost, and they haven't yet learned all the bad things that can happen to good (and not so good) moviemakers in Hollywood. They can get all the instruction they need about such failings...
Well, maybe I just like underdogs, but I'm again going to pass up the opportunity to bash the council. (at least for the whole column). Not that I doubt the veracity of the various reports on their total and utter incompetence; the dirt that has found its way into the press is, I'm sure, just the tip of the duncecap...
...There was an utter failure to maintain anysort of underwriting standards," said DorothyAnderson, deputy chief of the Public ProtectionBureau in the Mass. attorney general's office."Lending was extremely irresponsible...
...disprove the charges and no way to undo the defamation. He is like the accused who appear in the papers as certain criminals, but with a confession extracted under the extreme pressure brought to bear in emotional testimony, he merits another look. Travis' expression of this utter outrage towards Abigail's treachery, coupled with the poignancy of Proctor's impotence in defending himself with mere words against mounting lies, builds to a moving denouement with Proctor's non-choice between false confessions and ostracization, or truth and certain death...