Word: absents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expect of life?" and had replied, "Life itself." Through some blessing, it is inertia of life, not of death, that now preoccupies David. He still ponders the morbid though moral question of how one can "work for the living without by that very act betraying those who are absent." But instead of being drawn toward the 6,000,000 dead, David subsumes the missing Katriel into his own life. After the victorious war, Wiesel writes, "a page has been turned. The curse has been revoked in this place and its reign terminated." There is little affirmation in the discovery, merely...
Without its plush outdoor landscapes, the movie would be almost indistinguishable from a particularly disastrous Laugh-In. The choppiness of the action could be excused as it precludes a continuous plot-line, which is also absent in the book. But the minimal transitions that are attempted lack the barest suggestion of originality. It just so happens, for instance, that Grand is an avid TV-watcher, and his propensity to change channels lets Southern smuggle in random bits about a disguised puma that eats its competition at a silk-stocking New York dog show and two gnarled heavyweight contenders who prance...
...opponents have also gained another delay of at least three weeks before the issue reaches the Senate floor. One Republican Senator who favors Carswell estimates that there might now be up to 40 votes against him. His opponents hope to persuade others, especially the key moderate Republicans, to be absent when the nomination comes up, rather than cast a vote for mediocrity. Even the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, has revealed that he would have much preferred the rejected Clement Haynsworth to Carswell on the ground that Haynsworth is more capable of appreciating...
...world that has the audacity to be imperfect is still molten. And their alternate curses at and apostrophes to the female pudenda retain a primal humor. But anyone who has read or watched the real Henry Miller knows that the author possesses a sly, ribald wit that is entirely absent from Rip Torn's somnambulistic impersonation. Leeching meals and wives from the bourgeois, Miller-Torn provides neither charm nor intelligence; it is impossible to believe that he would be invited out for a drink, much less in for the night. Moreover, though his dialogue is fixed...
...other hand. I must say that the old Locb habits of overproduction (absent this year) are, alas, being replaced by new rituals. Once again, we have props and backstage machinery in front of us for the play's duration: once again, the house lights are turned on at various times during the action; once again, there are entrances and exits through the aisles. In the case of Next Time these touches create an informal atmosphere that reinforces the script's essential lack of theatricality...