Word: connections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...education of the young king: Arthur's courting of Guenevere: the establishment of Camelot: the love triangle of Arthur. Guenevere, and Lancelot: the search for the Holy Grail: the power struggle between Arthur and his half-brother/son (through incest) Mordred. Alas, the film stumbles between episodes, failing to connect the careful pattern of events coherently. The numerous battle scenes--exciting, if a bit gratuitously gory--always run too long. Even the tone of the film vacilates between tongue-in-cheek humor, and at other times, terrible solemnity. Perhaps, the scope of the legend overwhelmed Boorman. But whatever the reason...
...good a Secretary of State will Haig turn out to be? Says Helmut Sonnenfeldt, who worked with Haig as Kissinger's top Soviet specialist: "My guess is that he will do pretty well. He won't see problems in isolation. He may connect them more than a lot of people's taste would warrant." Rejecting the view that Haig is an unimaginative technocrat, Sonnenfeldt says "he has a broad and creative vision and a special talent for recognizing the connection between issues." Other observers, such as former White House staffers and senior State Department officials, note that...
Despite inevitable frictions, both sides can point to significant achievements as a result of normalization of relations. Six round-trip airline flights a week now connect Cairo and Tel Aviv-three by El Al and three by Nefertiti Airways, a makeshift airline designed to protect EgyptAir from possible boycotts at Arab airports. Numerous accords have been signed in commerce, technical-exchange, land transport and cultural-affairs programs. Israel has sold Egypt $12 million worth of goods, ranging from bananas to iron ore. Egypt, in turn, has sold Israel $500 million in oil-a quarter of its production-and has picked...
...with modernism, only more so, because we are much closer to it. Its reflexes still jerk, the severed limbs twitch; the parts are still there, but they no longer connect or function as a live whole. The modernist achievement will continue to affect culture for another century at least, because it was large, so imposing and so irrefutably convincing. But its dynamic is gone, and our relationship to it is becoming archaeological. Picasso is no longer a contemporary, or a father figure; he is a remote ancestor, who can inspire admiration but not opposition. The age of the New, like...
...Sunday Afternoon, a man who has stayed on in London visits some friends in the country. He misses "the aesthetic of living" that he and they once shared and finds it hard to explain what the bombing is like: "As it does not connect with the rest of life, it is difficult, you know, to know what one feels. One's feelings seem to have no language for anything so preposterous." Someone present replies, sympathetically, that the blitz "will have no literature...