Word: tampering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...threat in the offing, has done a great deal of good in increasing the flow of Jews. But if it should become law, it would be counterproductive. The Soviets would pull in their belt [and do without Western technology and capital] before they'd let us tamper with their system...
Surprisingly, no individuals, not even lawyers, are generally required to report crimes that have been committed (as opposed to crimes in preparation); only if they actually tamper with evidence are they vulnerable to charges of obstruction of justice. Under U.S. law, an attorney's sacred trust belongs to his client, not to the court...
...vacuum of space, what would the tremendous pulling power of the black hole do to the moon and its effects on our tides? What if the black hole crashed into the earth's surface because of the pull of the earth's gravity? If they tamper with the forces of nature in space, they might destroy...
...Catholicism. The surrealism here is not extraneous or forced-it arises out of the material. Instead of a shock show of the contorted and bizarre, the film glides with the constant expectation of something more subtly strange, the ever-present possibility that some grazing sleight of hand will tamper with reality just enough to dip the action into a world of dreams. When Tristana climbs the bell-tower, with the deaf boy behind and looking up her skirt, she comes upon the bloodied, severed head of the gentleman, swinging crazily from the church bell. And the vision delicately propels...
...miss what he's saying because the cadence is so interesting. It's nitpicking to say that this style was gimmicky compared to Eve's, which didn't have to vary the stress. There was an instinctive feeling for dynamics and speed variation that didn't need to tamper with the natural rhythm of the language...