Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is something appropriate about this pubescent ardor for Cher. At 28 she is herself not far removed from the true-believer status of her fans. Indeed, her saving, authentic grace may lie in her ability to admit that the only definition of success she has ever held is stardom. She is a creature totally formed by show business-first by her fantasies about it, then by her precocious immersion in it. She married Sonny, then a record promoter, when...
...over three decades since Harvard took over from Radcliffe the responsibility for educating undergraduates without regard to sex. Yet, the Administration began considering a proposal to admit students on a similar basis only last week...
...important service American Jews perform for Israel, apart from collecting money, is to try to influence American opinion and policy in ways favorable to Israel. So effective do they seem at this that sooner or later every U.S. visitor to Arab lands will be asked to admit that the pro-Israel bias of U.S. policy is surely the work of the mysteriously omnipotent and sinister American Jewish lobby...
...admit that I consciously used some of Parllne Kael's descriptions of particular memonts in the movie. I read her piece about a week before beginning my own, and hold in mind the expression "handsome, grainy-cinema-verite" and the characterization of Mabel as a "chastened, hurt-animal" penitent and "anxious speed freak." By any ethical standards I should have given credit to the New Yorker review...
...poignantly, pull after a while. All he can think of to do with the phoenix once captured is eat it. He is a Jacobean Bernie Cornfeld, spreading the gospel of "Be rich!" and he receives the perfect come-uppance--he can have his money back only if he'll admit in public what he was trying...