Word: commend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enough bleakness and despair for one morning's reading, you say? Before you avert your eyes and turn to less disturbing subject matter, consider the other elements of Welcome to L.A. that commend the film to your moviegoing attention. Firstly, not every character flounders through life in the throes of utter despondency. The exception appears in the form of the superstar vocalist Eric Wood, played by Richard Baskin (who also wrote the scores for Welcome and Nashville). He serves the function of being the token enigma in the cast, providing a refreshing contrast with the honesty-chic psychobabble...
When I was in elementary school, our class was given an assignment to trace our ancestors to their country of origin. I could not do it. At that time it was hard for me to understand why I was the only student not able to complete the assignment. I commend Alex Haley for his accomplishment and only wish that I could have beaten...
...failure three long years ago, but you don't just walk out on a person just because they turn out to be second rate ... There's more to a man than that." Hanley wrests such epiphanies from meager raw materials, and it is easy to commend his skill and tenacity. But A Dream Journey like Clem and Lena themselves, is more to be puzzled at than loved. Paul Gray
...actress to see stars. Mostly, however, the gizmo worked amazingly well. Says Lange: "I got very close with the guys who were working the hand. I got so totally relaxed that sometimes I'd go up there and take a nap." Others who worked on the picture commend Lange as a girl as gritty as she is pretty, gamely controlling her natural anxiety at being swept through the air, at considerable height, by an unpredictable and manifestly less-than-perfected contrivance...
...commend you for your editorial of February 24 in which you refused to publish a second publication of an Aramco advertisement for engineers, and you also discussed Saudi policies at length and called it "morally wrong for any corporation in government agency to acquiesce in racism...