Word: appearances
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Interestingly, The Rose evokes little nostalgia of the '60s. The concert scenes are exciting, but the audiences appear so carnivorous that Rose's on-stage death seems sacrificial. Everything looks drugged out and messy. Not only messy in a physical sense, with all of Rose's glimmering, filthy rags and feathers, but also in a spiritual sense. The crowd scenes capture the alienated, frenetic mood of the late '60s. The Rose portrays the jarring disillusionment caused by the American Dream going bust...
China is trying to appear "more like a legalistic modern state, to seem like a democracy without taking the risks," he said...
Without an analytical personal of Henry James to crystalize these routine affairs into clear gems of human nature, we have to trust that the characters are the way they appear to be or are the way they say they are. When Felix wears bright flowered suspenders with checkered pants he looks like a fool. When Gertrude says that her family makes use of all 1000 ways to be dreary; when Felix says that in marrying him Gertrude would be hiding her light under a bushel, he being the bushel; and when Eugenia says she is a deserted baroness left with...
...exactly what has been violated in this instance." The outrage in Tehran suggests that this vital principle of discourse between nations may be violated again in this age when terrorism is becoming commonplace. Says Beers sadly, "The old rules simply don't apply any more. In fact they appear to no longer exist...
Carrington has had little time for such pursuits since Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher named him Foreign Secretary last May. The two appear to work exceedingly well together, and the Foreign Secretary has emerged as one of her most influential Cabinet members. Shortly after settling into his Whitehall office, Carrington saved Thatcher from a colossal political blunder on the Rhodesian question by persuading her not to recognize the Muzorewa regime prematurely. After the Prime Minister rather coldly argued that Britain would not accept any Vietnamese "boat people" refugees, Carrington flew to Hong Kong to observe their plight for himself. When...