Word: valid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rebel, THX 1138 4EB, running toward the camera of a closed-circuit television instantly evokes a gut empathetic reaction, and the color and opticals (dissolves mostly) are employed with flair and discipline. If it all seems insubstantial when it's over, at least Lucas has made a valid stylistic exercise from a serviceable cinematic premise...
...systematic." And well it may be, but systematic thinking and intellectual rigor is but one form of truth. Photography--with its episodic glimpses, its focus on a single image in a world that is blurred and rushing past--presents another form of truth, different from rational truth but also valid...
Legitimate Objections. Nevertheless, Hanoi was clearly doing so-and seemed to be getting away with it. The U.S. had some legitimate objections to Pnompenh and had equally valid reservations about Warsaw, an ally of Hanoi and a supplier of its arms. "We have proposed only places where they have an embassy and no apparent difficulties," said a U.S. official. "If we played it their way, we would suggest Taipei." Moreover, the North Vietnamese-and the Russians-did their best to capitalize on Johnson's repeated statements that he would send U.S. representatives "anywhere, any time," to "any spot...
Except for Item 2, there are obviously parallel charges that can be leveled at the excessive use of alcohol. But Giordano declares: "Surely it is not valid to justify the adoption of a new vice by trying to show that it is no worse than a presently existing...
...rules, and the Second Circuit held that the district judge erred in refusing to accept Eisen's suit as a class action. In so doing, the court emphasized that the rules should be interpreted as liberally as possible. If the cause of action is apparently valid, said the court, an effort should be made to avoid throwing out the suit on narrow, technical grounds...