Word: weaker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extending his technical inventions into the body of a film using them to invigorate and give meaning to a story's more casual, empty, expository sections. A good deal of the direction in Dressed to Kill appears awkward or perfunctory. Shot for shot, through patches of inaction and weaker stretches of suspense, the movie advances with a clumsy, prosaic quality--not unlike the flat-footed style of Kubrick's The Shining, which DePalma, in a recent interview, says he detests...
...speculation by some West Europeans that the U.S. Is politically and militarily weaker than the Soviet Union: The efforts made by the U.S. to ensure equilibrium are considerable. Nobody knows that better than the Europeans. The decision on medium-range missile systems underlines our joint resolve not to accept Soviet superiority...
After nearly 3½ years of exercising immense power, Jimmy Carter remains resolutely rooted, in his cordovan wing tips, in Plains, Ga. But the rest of him is not so easy to figure out these days. He has left the U.S. weaker politically, more diminished in international respect, than any President in the 35 years since the end of World War II. Though the centerpiece of this mission is the summit in Venice, the real meaning is a search for some kind of cohesion in the frayed alliance. In personal terms it could be the final test of Carter...
...occurred to any of these wise heads that the Soviets may not be as soft on us as we were on them? That they may not give us time to catch up? That they may very well decide to sink us while we are the weaker ship...
...fighters, the rebels are handicapped by primitive tactics, poor weapons and the inability of rival guerrilla factions to form a common front. In the analysis of one U.S. official, the biggest danger facing Moscow in Afghanistan may be political rather than military: "The Communist regime they installed is weaker, less popular, more in disarray [than ever]. Its original slim support is eroding. The Soviets are in danger of losing their puppet regime...