Word: problems
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...louder Carter has shouted, the more his staff has worried about his assaults on Reagan boomeranging. At an urgent strategy session in the Watergate apartment of Campaign Chairman Robert Strauss, five top aides agreed that Carter must tone down his rhetoric. How to persuade him was the problem. Charlie Kirbo, the President's confidant from Atlanta, was deputized to put the matter to Carter as forcefully as possible...
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...main problem with the officiating was that it was inconsistent, and it threw off our game," Crimson coach Bob Scalise said afterward. "We couldn't tell what would or wouldn't be called...
These are genuinely ordinary people, as ordinary as real people could be, and their problems are ordinary. They are, as I said, depressed, which seems to be the most ordinary thing in the world. After all, who isn't? Some might argue that this is the problem with the movie--ordinary problems suggest little intrinsic interest. By contrast, Taxi Driver's Travis Bickle is, to all appearances, ordinary--a cabbie who falls in love with a campaign worker--but he is intrinsically interesting because he is psychotic, and of dark aspect, and when the camera rolls the heads start...
...mother's characterization is the biggest problem with Sargent's screenplay, but not the only one. He and Redford try to work with symbols--the silver napkin rings, a doorbell, a lack of pets in the house, a broken plate--details that fail to accumulate, leaving a mess. It's all too obvious; just so the dialogue...