Word: depths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...says. "Also, unlike Dad, he was very quiet." Alexander seems content to accept in large part Harris's self-analysis, and indeed never questions why Harris needed to indulge in this sort of speculation. It is ironic and sad that Alexander fails to analyze her subject in the depth crucial to a defense of Jean Harris. For she believes that Harris's defense in court failed for the same reason. "In his opening statement, Joel Aurnou [the defense attorney] had told the jury, "the answers to the elements that count in this case lie within the mind of Jean Harris...
...applaud the vigor and depth of Kissinger's arms control proposal [March 21]: his approach in which the U.S. should unilaterally implement a plan of its own even if the Soviet Union does not go along makes the U.S. the leader rather than the follower. More important, it shows the world that this country is committed to world peace...
There are soap-operatic calamities in this extended family, complete with a widowed aunt (Joyce Van Patten), her restless older daughter (Jodi Thelen) and her coddled, sickly younger one (Mandy Ingber). But they are redeemed by Simon's abiding affection. In a character portrait in depth, Željko Ivanek, as Eugene's older brother, provides his panting sibling with a silver lining: not a Yankees uniform but a French postcard. This season's silver lining is Neil Simon's love letter to his past...
...final two year of his embattled Presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson was repeatedly shouted down by anti-war protestors. Eventually Johnson stopped speaking at all but military installations, but according to biographer Doris Kearns, the loud protest had a more lasting effect. Johnson's heightened awareness of the depth of his opposition, hammered home by his public appearances led him to withdraw from the 1968 Presidential race--and to call a halt to years of bloody American bombing in Southeast Asia...
...class system, but an enemy there must be. Americans often make a hash of British plays, mangling not just the accents but the invective. Sometimes, though, an American director's instinctively naturalistic approach, evoking a slice of life, can soften a didactic play and give it newfound emotional depth...