Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Paul certainly made a skillful and impressive try to solve that problem. Said the Rev. Avery Dulles, son of John Foster Dulles and a theologian at Catholic University: "There is no lack...
What the draft-Kennedy forces lack in money (total budget: $175,000) and big-name resources, they make up for in youthful spirits and shoe leather. They have hundreds of volunteers, directed by a small but experienced team of campaign veterans. It is a bare-knuckle fight. Observes A.J. Boland, Democratic chairman in Escambia County in the panhandle: "They're shooting to kill here, fighting like cats and dogs. The Kennedy people in the county intend to march their slate, 32 strong, to the voting place in a mass, to prevent last-minute defections...
Unfortunately Bellon vitiates the intensity by allowing the rest of her film to deteriorate into a series of rigid and predictable scenes: the deeply wounded victim refusing at first to bring charges; her boyfriend reacting with outrage but with a lack of true understanding; the community half suspecting that the victim may have done something to provoke the crime; the rapists, when they are finally brought to trial, insisting that they were indeed enticed into their act; the woman, supported only by a friend, forced to relive the most ghastly moments of her life in testimony and in re-enactment...
...cheerful, until the Frey character meets another young woman (Nicole Jamet) and sets about turning the maison a trois into a maison a quatre. Needless to say he doesn't bother to explain the rules and arrangements to the new recruit, and much unhappiness results from this lack of forthright communication. Eventually, because this is supposed to be a comedy, things are set to order (the new girl stays), and everyone settles down to a mutual misunderstanding...
Many of those worries seem to have been quieted, though, despite a noticeable lack of support from movement celebrities. Demonstrators stayed steadfastly nonviolent, and the police response shocked many of the original opponents of the action. Several members of the Coalition for Non-Violence at Seabrook, originally set up to oppose the occupiers tactics, carried their sleeping bags to the demonstrators' camp Saturday night after watching the evening news...