Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crown Appointments Commission thought differently. This 14-member church group was formed in 1977 to propose to the Prime Minister two names, in order of preference, to fill each bishop vacancy. Runcie is the first Archbishop of Canterbury to be selected this way, rather than through a series of political consultations. The new procedure is a step toward fuller independence of the established English church from the machinery of state, something Runcie favors...
That's the way things go in Monty Python's Life of Brian. The film is a send-up biblical epic recounting the biography of a chap born in the manger down the alley from the one people sing about each Christmas. Brian (Graham Chapman) is just a regular guy. He has a domineering mother, basically cowardly nature and no messianic complex whatever. But circumstances force him into contact with, among others, a lisping Pilate, an underground revolutionary group that spends more time in ideological debate than in overthrowing the Romans, and all sorts of people who think...
...year that passed in this quiet way was 1963, though it might easily have been another; the great events of that year did not mark the girls. But in 1963 Director Kurys was 13, Anne's age. She has dedicated the film "to my sister, who still has not returned my orange sweater." Obviously the commonplace events of the film have an intense and personal meaning for her. Some of this intensity is conveyed to the viewer, some is lost. The film offers a sense of the strong, often mysterious flow that when it is finished, we call...
...SAID the adoption of energy conservation and low-technology solar power represent the way out of the United States' dependence on imported oil, most people would dismiss you as a "freak" from California or the Sierra Club. However, if you told that to the members of the Energy Project at the Harvard Business School, they'd most likely slap you on the back and welcome you to the club...
...American way is blessed in the end--family, competition, team spirit, college and friendship--all are affirmed in Dave's final victory. Yates creates just enough ambivalence to stop short of cuteness, but he knows better than to drop the full weight of the heavy hand of Social Conscience on Breaking Away. He pushes ahead to an upbeat finish...