In both cases HGV blind spots played a part and it is hard to see how vehicles that have such glaring endemic safety flaws are allowed in busy streets.
Shooting on 16-millimeter film and using a cast drawn largely from local theater groups, Mr. McElhinney has created a movie that is not without the flaws endemic in low-budget productions but still projects an amazing degree of stylistic assurance and originality.
(The subplot involving the agents' recruitment of a local yokel to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan is among the less compelling aspects of the play.) But if "The Good Negro" suffers from the flaws endemic in straight-up documentary theater, they are mostly disguised by vibrant performances and a crisply paced production directed by Liesl Tommy.
UP THE YANGTZE The Canadian filmmaker Yung Chang's documentary, about a pleasure cruise for tourists on the Yangtze River, which is rising and submerging the towns on its banks as a result of the construction of the vast Three Gorges Dam, has most of the flaws endemic to contemporary documentary filmmaking: disembodied voice-overs, archival inserts, portentous music, pretty pictures, easy ironies.
A specialist in Jewish art, a field he said "most people would say doesn't exist," Dr. Rosen said his colleagues' familiarity with the American system "gives us the opportunity to correct some of the flaws that are endemic in the U.S".
"It's casting an outsider's eye over a part of American culture that is deeply flawed, and so endemic that many Americans can't see the wood for the trees".
To sew your own is an act of creative independence; hair removal and prosecco bars simply fuel the endemic belief that our bodies are flawed and we need "professionals" to fix them or drown our sorrows.
"While the study clearly shows that the CIA's detention and interrogation program itself was deeply flawed, the deeper, more endemic problem lies in a CIA, assisted by a White House, that continues to try to cover up the truth," Udall said on 10 December 2014.
While this development is welcome, other more serious flaws in the US electoral system are now endemic and will require new legislation.
It's easier to set aside or explain away the misogyny endemic to Purity and Submission than to reckon with the fact that we've elevated profoundly flawed men to the level of literary gods.
