Word: accomplishments
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...with eclectic religious artifacts and the documentary details of the backwater South. The cast, including even bit players who appear as cops, used-car salesmen and townsfolk, features enough oddballs to staff a Tennessee Williams repertory company. Huston's only lapses are a few purple flashback sequences that accomplish little beyond allowing the di rector to appear onscreen as Hazel's grandfather. Still, those moviegoers who have a taste for Wise Blood are not going to cavil about flaws. It is enough to ride the wild imaginative waves of this singular artistic adventure. -Frank Rich
...mobilize ERA support on a nation-wide level," Jung said, adding that the actions teams that have been set up across the country should accomplish this goal...
...point where the former fails and the parties to a dispute resort to arms. Of course, we have developed a variety of strategic options and targeting policies for the contingency of nuclear war. I doubt, however, whether we have a clear notion of what these weapons are supposed to accomplish should we be required to use them. Deeply imbedded in all our plans is the notion of punishing the aggressor rather than defeating...
...outcry for federal intervention has been accompanied by cynicism about what the public sector could accomplish," Sammons said, citing government failures in urban renewal and Indian affairs. "Why should the government be any more successful with health care...
...prison by writing a letter to U.S. District Judge Robert Kelleher. Pleading for a reduction in sentence, Boyce claimed that he was a changed man and that prison violence appalled him. "I am now finished with angry gestures," Boyce wrote. "They are self-destructive, they tear hearts, they accomplish nothing. The difference between Christopher Boyce who at 21 took matters into his own hands and the Christopher Boyce who composes this letter is that I have discovered a powerful, constructive vehicle to convey my criticisms." His stated ambition: to emigrate to Ireland and support himself as a writer. According...