Word: deflected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cinema 57: Barry Lyndon. First, throw away all the reviews you've seen of it, except this one and Paul K. Rowe's on page two today, which I haven't read but which he assures me is penetrating and uplifting. Most of them (the reviews) seem to deflect off Barry Lyndon like poorly aimed arrows. Kubrick evokes 18th century Europe with a historians' eye for detail in his cinematographic version of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel. He succeeds in transporting the viewer to the aristocratic world of the 1760s and stuns us with his well-designed shots of landscapes...
...currency reserves on costlier oil or petroleum products that many have had to cut back sharply on development plans requiring capital equipment imported from the West. By joining in the chorus that blames the First World for the economic problems of the underdeveloped states, OPEC has been able to deflect responsibility for the disastrous impact of higher oil prices. Many underdeveloped countries, moreover, have been actively trying to create OPEC-like cartels in order to increase profits on their own commodity exports. While bauxite exporters have been able to hike their prices, copper producers have...
...know why I did it. Reaction, I guess. I lunged with both hands. I grabbed her arm down. I don't know if it went off before I grabbed her or not." Other officers were certain the lunge was in time. "There's no question he did deflect the weapon," said Lieut. Frank Jordan. "Just as she shot, he pushed it aside. It was a very slight deflection, but it was enough...
...Family tune is a cynical compromise reached by the FCC and the networks to deflect mounting protests, in and out of Congress, about the rising tide of TV violence. Criticism peaked last fall when NBC aired at 8 p.m. a seamy story (Born Innocent) about a rebel teen-ager who was raped with a broom handle. With a glow of virtue, the networks "voluntarily" agreed to police themselves with their own censors and wrote into the National Association of Broadcasters' television code what amounts to a rule clearly intended to ban sex and violence from the air between...
There seems little chance that the unsavory publicity about Mafia connections likely to be brought to light by Hoffa's disappearance will deflect the union from its course very much. The lurid headlines are an embarrassment, certainly. The Teamsters lately have sought respectability through a magazine and billboard advertising campaign that proclaims: TEAMSTERS-A PART OF THE AMERICAN LIFE...