Word: alterable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That argument, which is beginning to sound like a slogan, really means: There is no acceptable alternative to the Shah. To say that there is no alternative at all is illogical, and unworthy of the men who reiterate it so dogmatically. But it is that dogma-"There is no alter native to the Shah"-that has dictated policy and discouraged options for many, many years.-Strobe Talbott
...Soviet standards, the career of new Politburo Member Konstantin Chernenko, 67, has zoomed upward meteorically. A husky, silver-haired bureaucrat, Chernenko has for years served in effect as Brezhnev's chief of staff and virtual alter ego. He is a member of the so-called Moldavian Clan, the group of Soviet apparatchiks who hitched their careers to Brezhnev's when he served as first secretary of the Moldavian Communist Party in the early '50s. Chernenko headed the Moldavian party's propaganda department. After Brezhnev succeeded Nikita Khrushchev as party chief in 1964, his protege first became...
More than children know, their books alter perceptions of the natural and moral worlds...
...alter the play's design is to destroy it, so Director Robert Mulligan (Bloodbrothers) has changed virtually nothing. On Broadway, the curtain came down after each scene; in the so-called cinematic version, Same Time, Next Year is pockmarked by photomontages that allegedly set up the story's different periods. Yet Mulligan's faithfulness to the text only reveals the flaws in Same Time, Next Year...
...truly terrifying, as Corky literally spins out of control. The dummy looks amazingly like Hopkins, with exaggerated features that caricature the actor's perfectly. This mocking resemblance not only allows for several nice shots contrasting the two faces, but emphasizes the entire concept of Fats and Corky's alter-ego. Fats' face, like his personality, becomes a grotesque parody of Corky...