Word: wreck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wertmuller's difficulties in seeing beyond the problems she depicts are characteristic of commercial films about sex and politics, whether made in Italy or Hollywood. She is able to present graphically the damage hierarchical social relations wreck on people's characters, producing class hatred, frustration, and sado-masochism. But she can see no way out and so idealizes the very destructive relationships she seeks to overcome...
...secretiveness of the Soviets in their dealings with individual U.S. companies. He favors a scheme whereby the Government would buy up grain and sell directly to Russia; and, according to one of his aides, he wants the Russians to "negotiate civilized contracts over a number of years rather than wreck our economy and prices." On that score, Meany clearly has a point. Again this year, the Russians reportedly planned their American grain purchases carefully, in order to get their ships' charters nailed down before word of the deal could get around and drive up rates. To maintain secrecy, they...
With protective services virtually halted, the board of supervisors passed a resolution on Wednesday requesting Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. to order in 200 highway patrolmen. It required Alioto's signature, however, and he declined to sign the order, fearing that it would wreck the negotiations he was trying to maintain between the board and the strikers. "I'm so angry I can't speak," snapped Board President Dianne Feinstein, a candidate for Alioto's job when the lame-duck mayor's second four-year term expires in January. Replied Alioto: "That...
...Reginald Kenneth Dwight. The lonely, lumpy, myopic only child of an R.A.F. squadron leader, he was too shy "to say boo to a goose." He was so out of favor with his straight-backed dad that he was forbidden to kick a soccer ball in the garden lest he wreck the rose bushes. He was refused permission to purchase mohair sweaters and Hush Puppies shoes, status gear he devoutly hoped would help him gain acceptance in the local smart set in the late '50s and early...
Pointedly suspicious of outsiders (roughly defined as anyone whose birth certificate is not on file at the local hospital), some Islanders suspected that Hollywood interlopers would wreck their tranquillity, ruin the tourist season and befoul their waters. Others pointed out that a film crew of 150 or so would pep up business considerably during a recession offseason. So the Islanders settled back to watch events with skepticism...