Word: actually
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like a documentary, the year of the episode flashes on the screen, followed by the voice-over narration and actual footage of historical events from that year, beginning on the geopolitical scale and swiftly narrowing down to events in Anton's front yard. Such narrative techniques may seem overly obvious or literary--and literal-minded--but they are surprisingly effective in showing how history and memory intrude into Anton's life...
...council's failure to protect a $12,000 involvement in the Costello concert and its attempts to keep the actual terms of the deal hidden are not isolated incidents. The articles to follow will show it to be part of a regular pattern of fast and loose use of the money undergraduates entrust to the sudent government...
...stage effects are harder to bring off for modern audiences than a manifestation of the supernatural. Try as directors may for some Freudian hallucinatory explanation of Macbeth, for example, the story makes little sense unless the witches are actual witches. This doesn't mean the supernatural must be portrayed as exotic: the most chilling thing about those women might be their normality, as if they were plump, middle-aged matrons nattering across a backyard fence about their ability to conjure spirits. That very perception of character seems to have guided Geraldine Page in a less malevolent but equally necromantic role...
...actual backstroke race, however, Mortensen finished almost one half-second behind Berkoff, who eclipsed his previous school record by more than two-tenths of a second...
...pleasure. "It's not worth being healthy if you're going to be miserable," he muses. His moderated pace paid off. Dr. Kenneth Cooper, founder of the Institute for Aerobics Research in Dallas, first saw Remar in December 1985 and estimated his biological age as ten years above his actual one. Now, says Cooper, "he's got the body of a man ten years younger, externally. Internally, he's five years younger...