Word: weak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MISCASTING of the two lead roles might be tolerable if the supporting cast were not so weak. Bernardi performs well, but the other actors are stiff and deliver their lines with little feeling. Marcovicci in particular damages what could be some of the movie's better scenes. She speaks mechanically, as though reading her part for the first time. Her love scenes with Allen are spoiled by the combination of abominable acting and typical one-liners that belong in Play It Again, Sam, not in a serious film...
...spent, Markey broke that rule too. While the candidate who spent the most money finished well behind Markey and the others, Markey, who ranked only fifth in campaign expenditures, finished first. And he was well on his way to Washington, because he faced only token opposition from a weak republican and an even weaker Independent...
Sanders felt his squad "was very weak on team defense" during their 88-85 loss to a barnstorming English quintet in a scrimmage last week, as the opposition guards combined for 35 points. He plans to implement an aggressive, pressing defense spearheaded by his scrappy guards...
...this case some of Brown-Beasley's arguments are weak, but several raise serious questions that Steiner's arguments do not answer. On the one hand Leonard is probably right not to rule now on Brown-Beasley's query, a request for an investigation of his racial discrimination complaint, which would best first be handled by the appeal panel. Yet it is hard to understand why Steiner--who for one need not, as Brown-Beasley notes, ultimately rule on the case--will not respond to certain fundamental procedural questions Brown-Beasley has raised. These questions include: 1) questions about...
...long as NLRB charges are pending, the company cannot call for a union decertification election at the plant, something the company undoubtedly is looking toward. The company executives hope to capitalize on the union's weak position: Local 262 has just lost an agonizingly long strike, nearly half its membership, and its top leadership, fired from their jobs last week...