Word: impactions
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...often contrived. At one point the boy falls into a puddle while running after his father, an incident which seems injected for the sole purpose of proving the film's spontaneity of detail. The photography is consistently fine, but at times it also appears too forced for true dramatic impact...
...mind of the accused may possibly be unique," said the public prosecutor in Bow Street magistrate's court. "It is clear that we have half of his mind beyond the reach of reason and the impact of facts...
...state must play an active, regulating role in society, W. Friedmann, professor of the University of Melbourne, declared last night before a Law Forum crowd of 80 in Langdell Hall. His talk was entitled: "The Legal Impact of the Social Welfare State...
Then he got married-and made his first impact on Houston society. His bride, Faustine Lee, was the daughter of Millionaire Oilman W. E. Lee. Unabashed by her father's riches, the fact that she was only 16, or the knowledge that he had only a dollar and a half, McCarthy borrowed his mother's wedding ring, contrived to get a license and engineered an elopement. His father-in-law was not pleased. McCarthy moved his bride into a $15-a-month apartment, got a job painting tank bottoms and swore to get as rich as the Lees...
...been radio, where the Washington TV owners' nightly listening has dropped from an average of 3 hours 42 minutes to a mere 24 minutes. The chief reason given for even occasional radio listening was "the superiority of [its] news programs." ¶ But whatever its impact on other leisure habits, TV has been cheering in one respect to sociologists. Said Pollster A'ldredge: "Television is "keeping families together at home." Specifically, husbands spend 42.8% more of their leisure time at home than they did before; wives, 39.7% more; children 41.3% more...