Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...life is a sort of precursor to the unconventional convention people in the U.S. called the sexual revolution, it is hardly surprising that his portrait of marriage in our society, stripped down, gives a picture of separation and rebirth no more credible than a modern mate-swapper's claim of rebirth in the space of an evening. The changes the characters ascribe to themselves are not born out by the facts--they still talk about each other in the same self-centered...
...solemnity of so many of them--but Marianne and Johan can envision nothing more. Scenes From A Marriage is closer to more of life for more of us, so its little nips of recognition are more frequent and less profound than in Bergman's other movies: thus the frequent claim, already made by both critics and promoters, that it is his most accessible film...
...Arafat: "If we return now to the historical root of our cause, we do so because present at this very moment in our midst are those who, while they occupy our homes, as their cattle graze in our pastures and as their hands pluck the fruit from our trees, claim at the same time that we are disembodied spirits, fictions without presence, without traditions or future...
...present themselves as revolutionaries, guerrillas and freedom fighters. They defend the use of violence as the necessary tactic of downtrodden peoples seeking to combat oppressive or colonial governments. In the eyes of their followers, the terrorists' successful use of violence often adds to, rather than detracts from their claim to respectability. Thus it is quite possible, if an independent Palestinian state is ever established, that statues of Arafat will some day be erected in the plazas of Nablus, like the plaques and statues of Eamon de Valéra in Ireland and Emiliano Zapata in Mexico. The fact that...
...grandson of a slave and the composer of seven operas, eight symphonies and close to a hundred other works. At 79, with his name in all the right reference books, William Grant Still could justifiably lay claim to the title "dean of American black composers." Except that he does not choose to. It is not that Still rejects his Negro heritage but that he feels his music has as many roots in Europe as it does in Africa. "If I have an ambition," he says, "it is to be recognized as a composer. Just that...