Word: bargainers
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Even if they had succeeded in striking a bargain, a further step would be required: putting an end to the anomaly by which Canada cannot amend its constitution-the British North America Act of 1867-without the approval of Britain's Parliament. However, by custom even that requires unanimity on the part of the provincial governments, and since the Ottawa conference made plain that this was impossible, the "patriation" of the constitution, as Canadians put it, was out of reach by traditional means...
...busting, and Bennett has been having more than a spot of trouble with the workers at his Indiana auto-body plant. workers at his Indiana auto-body plant. The two sides make a business agreement, and the head crook generously gives his moll Clara to Bennett to sweeten the bargain...
Practice is a comedy-romance-farce-drama, a stringing together (better for pearls than for movies) that looks like a bargain but amounts to thinness in all departments (hyphenated-genre films typically try for multiple effects and end up delivering none). But de Broca (King of Hearts, Dear Inspector) overcomes this structural weakness by focusing on important and abiding human concerns -- fear of aging, jealousy, hypocrisy, sexual morality, and the value of love and family. The somewhat contrived plot is ultimately less important than the mood, which is wonderfully wistful and lyrical...
...mean he can't write a happy ending if he wants to. But The Second Coming's conclusion, with Will and Allison starting their lives over together, simply ignores all of Percy's oft-repeated questions. Barrett will have his work, his wife, and God too in the bargain. All dilemmas are resolved, with no explanations...
...Henry Award for his short sto ry 1-80 Nebraska M.490-M.205. Three years later his novel Union Dues (whose theme of cultural cross-pollination surfaces again in Secaucus) was nominated for a National Book Award. National Book Award. He has written three films for Roger Gorman's bargain-basement New World Pictures: Piranha, The Lady in Red and the current Battle Beyond the Stars. The profits from his stories and his Corman scripts