Word: utters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bleakness and despair for one morning's reading, you say? Before you avert your eyes and turn to less disturbing subject matter, consider the other elements of Welcome to L.A. that commend the film to your moviegoing attention. Firstly, not every character flounders through life in the throes of utter despondency. The exception appears in the form of the superstar vocalist Eric Wood, played by Richard Baskin (who also wrote the scores for Welcome and Nashville). He serves the function of being the token enigma in the cast, providing a refreshing contrast with the honesty-chic psychobabble...
...blinding. The viciousness and deceit, the shell of anger and the hollowness of despair are masks the royal family wear to cloak the more profound hurt of rejection. If they cannot have love, Henry, Eleanor and their three squabbling sons will have hatred--not merely hatred, but complete and utter decimation of their victims and tormentors...
...foreign policy, hard-digging investigative reporting is all but impossible. "Our law and our attitudes have been conditioned to defend free speech rather than free inquiry," observes Editor Harold Evans, whose exceptionally aggressive Sunday Times has repeatedly incurred government wrath in the past decade. "It is all right to utter opinion but not to publish the supporting evidence." Thus probably no British newspaper would have got away with a disclosure similar to the Washington Post's report last month of secret CIA payoffs to Jordan's King Hussein (see Newswatch). Nor is it likely that a British version...
...seem like that of a pampered sacred cow at the approach of a foot-and-mouth inspector. The fact is that the new skepticism, at bottom, is not antiscience at all. It is only at war with the once prevalent assumption that science and technology should be allowed utter freedom, with little or no accounting to those who have to live with the bad results as well as the good. If the layman on the street has discovered that science is fallible, that hardly makes him its permanent enemy. After all, everybody has forgiven Newton for thinking that...
With his fine singing voice and utter disdain for everyone, Rick Farrar as Chaucer, the butler who did, did not, and did do it, almost succeeds in making his share of the crime perfect. And Harry Dorfman, as the inspector who wishes the criminals in his district would be "a bit more industrious and inventive," turns in what Thornblade, mispronouncing his favorite adjective, would call a "consummate" performance. Dorfman's moments at the police station with his amiable sidekick Grover Bagby, well played by Martin Marks, almost (forgive the expression) steal the show...