Word: weak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case against Aquino is weak, to say the least. The body of the evidence, which was circumstantial at best, came from two former guerrillas who turned state's evidence and then met mysteriously violent deaths...
...team will wrestle more meets this time around, and several of the foes which were added to the slate are weak enough to insure that Harvard will improve on last year's 9-6 finish...
...feel less guilty when I spend, for instance." Trainees are given "treasure maps" and told to paste in pictures of luxury items they wish they had. In a drill intended to build a proper sense of superiority, trainees pair off and mutter to one another: "You're weak, you're weak, you're noodle weak." At graduation time, each trainee is showered with gold sprinkles...
Successful humor is much rarer than successful class war, so it may not matter that Wertmuller's original notion of a weak character disintegrating under economic pressures gets lost in all the commotion. It may be worth mentioning, however, that Pryor's characterizations have nothing to do with the cool black humor of such modern comics as Bill Cosby and the late Godfrey Cambridge. He plays eye-rolling, foot-shuffling, minstrel-show darkies, with a bit of ghetto fast-mouth thrown in. On the other hand, the audience in which this reviewer sat was 90% black, and everyone...
...city planner is trying to understand the dispiriting decay of his time and his place. He wants to reconcile his early socialist ideals with the "society of centralized reallocation" that he and his fellow bureaucrats have engineered. He wonders why the exercise of power has left him feeling so weak: "A planner can neither improve things nor make them much worse." His thoughts become increasingly aphoristic: "The bureaucrat is bound to his fellow workers by incurable resentment." In the end, his rambling monologue amounts to a masterly disquisition on the vanity-and the necessity-of human wishes. Konr...