Word: slightest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...system on the slope toward a meltdown can be quickly corrected. The NRC maintains resident inspectors at many plants, makes unannounced inspections of others and, as last week's action demonstrates, is willing to shut down a plant for as long as necessary if there is even the slightest question of safety...
...Official choice of works on China to be translated into Russian is equally tendentious. One newly distributed book, translated from Japanese, states that China presents a picture of "lawlessness elevated to a way of life, oppression of the masses, contempt for the individual and the absence of the slightest semblance of democracy...
WHAT IS REMARKABLE about this film is that director Zale Dalen manages to sour this entire setting without being too blatant about it. This is Dalen's first feature and it shows--there is the slightest hint of home-movie about this film in the camera placings and the colors. But the pacing is superb and an imaginative use of soundtrack keeps you there. In fact, the home-movie quality--the slight hint of innocence about the film, the complete lack of slickness--actually helps the film. The whole thing looks innocent enough, but what you're seeing is awful...
...relations with the U.S.: The foundations of Japan's foreign policy are built on close relations with the U.S. This must not be allowed to change. There must not be the slightest bit of mistrust between the two nations...
...lines he fed Mor ley, Screenwriter Peter Stone has concoct ed a script strewn with terrible puns ("Ban the bombe") and snickering double-entendre gags that make all the tired connections between food and sex. The arbitrary plot about a chef murderer hops from place to place on the slightest whim. It is little more than an excuse for cameo appearances by top European actors (Philippe Noiret, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jean Rochefort) and restaurants (Paris' Tour d' Argent, London's Café Royal). The settings are sumptuously photographed by John Alcott (Barry Lyndon), but Ted Kotcheff...