Word: context
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would also like to address my telephone conversation with Rokhsar, from which my quotations were either misquoted or taken out of context. I repeatedly inquired what exactly Rokhsar was accusing me of. He refused to tell me and instead asked me if there was anything I wanted to tell him about the elections. When I told him that there was nothing that stuck in my mind, he found this hard to believe...
...convinced that within the context of thosethree asset classes, that performance is quiterespectable," Meyer said...
...songs are impressive, but finally they become tiresome. In part that's because the torrents of words, flung out as Harry scuttles frantically through his meaningless rounds, are a kind of screen, preventing us from making any real connection with Harry. In part it's because Harry's context is neither a realistic portrait of modern New York nor a persuasive movie metaphor -- as classic film noir often was -- for urban scuzziness...
...Americans tuned in to watch the candidates' meeting, a team of staff members assembled at the Time & Life Building in New York City on Sunday night to work on the debate stories. Says chief political correspondent Michael Kramer: "Our aim was to place the presidential debate in the context of the overall campaign, in a way many newspapers haven't done because they were fixated on the event itself...
...recently in the region, namely, The Fourth Wall and The Cocktail Hour. Including The Dining Room, the three plays have strikingly similar concepts: a certain object or tradition is chosen as the title and focal point of the play, and then the characters reveal their plot all in the context of the object...