Word: fault
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...this point that Havana starts to go awry. It is not Redford's fault. The years have weathered him handsomely, and he contrives to lose his famous cool with insinuating subtlety. The problem lies with Olin, who never loses enough of her cool, and with Pollack and the writers. Whatever else is going on in their lives, Jack and Bobby need to come to a world-well-lost moment, a rocking, rolling acknowledgment of suppressed desires. That does not happen. We get shadows and tenderness instead. Then the script sends her up- country to join the rebels and sends Jake...
...Grinch Stole Christmas provides a perfect cap to the evening's entertainment, combining innovation and humor with a healthy little moral. Although Bial's execution is not perfect throughout these three one-acts, one cannot fault his Christmas vision...
...hardly the author's fault. It was much easier to write about life under Brezhnev without worrying about becoming dated, since virtually nothing ever changed under the dull, hairy Soviet leader. Writing The Russians was akin to painting with a skyscraper as a subject. Speed was not essential; the skyscraper wasn't going anywhere...
THESE numbers will not improve until we change the way we think about violence. Until police are willing to arrest violent husbands before their wives are dead, until we all are able to see that rape is never a woman's fault, violent criminals will not be punished and survivors of violence will remain silent in our midst...
...Heseltine's betrayal in contesting Thatcher for the leadership. In an editorial, the London Times said the challenge was "monstrous cruel," exemplifying "squalid maneuvering by an introverted male establishment terrified it might lose office." Still, the voice of that same British establishment went on in its editorial to fault Thatcher for complacency. She was blamed for failing to defuse the threat to her position that had begun 10 days earlier with the devastating resignation speech in the House of Commons by Sir Geoffrey Howe, former Deputy Prime Minister...