Word: barriere
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...Lears. Even if we strain, we can't hear the hoofbeats of the Apocalypse galloping closer. Nor do we realize, like Lear, that life and space and time will not stand still while we crawl in the maddening mud of self-pity. Instead, this Lear alienates us, erects a barrier between the stage and the audience, makes us struggle to stay in our seats. We throw up our hands. We do not want to watch TV, to see the results of the New Hampshire primary or an Ajax commercial on Sellar's quartet of black and white sets...
Linsley, who has been steadily improving since the season began, broke the five-minute barrier for the first time in her career with her finish...
Warm, human, four-color magazine illustrations depicting Dick Nixon the family man, perhaps even surrounded by his beautiful family, will allow the women of America, and initially, the women of New Hampshire, to identify with him, and his home life. This exposure will break down the current cold barrier he projects to women. This warm visual image will be supported by strong reader copy that, point by point, will sell his qualifications to voters who can study the advertisementleisurely in their own home...
...losing bouts with self-pity, his assorted betrayals by parents, teachers and wives and his uneasy relationship with his audience, which is alternately exhorted, cajoled and mocked. None of the dynamic exaltation of the Who and their fans for the Pinkies. To Waters, the audience is just another barrier, another obstacle to his exquisitely indelicate communion with his inner being. "So ya/ Thought ya/ Might like to go to the show," he sneers at some hapless...
...major barrier to legal wage and price restrictions is that, unlike Nixon in 1971, Carter does not have stand-by power to impose them. The overwhelming majority in Congress still opposes such measures. Most labor leaders and business executives would undoubtedly rush to post "anticipatory" increases in wages and prices if Congress seriously debated granting the President authority to impose controls. Another constraint might be White House resignations. Anti-inflation Adviser Alfred Kahn favors some credit controls but says he would quit if wage-price limits were introduced...