Word: distinguished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Affirmative rebuttal: The alternative is a series of campaigns consisting of ever more tightly controlled photo opportunities and slickly packaged TV spots. Debates offer an imperfect but valuable chance for a mass audience to try to distinguish image from reality...
Seemingly trying to retain the comedy of the Meaning of Life while substituting real meaning for satire, Razor's Edge instead becomes a kind of home movie version of Murray's journeys around the world with outtakes from failed soap opera pilots. to distinguish the comic absurd from the would-be serious drama, director John Byrum uses Jack Netzshe's heavy-handed music and a seemingly endless stock of orange sunsets to highlight the shifts to real drama that his direction and Murray's acting leave otherwise undistinguished...
...ASPECT of King Lear which the Theater Works production presents most clearly is Lear's struggle to distinguish between wisdom and folly, reality and insanity. Although that achievement belongs primarily to McDonough's Lear, it owes almost as much to the agility of Kevin Keragga's Fool. The Fool acts as Lear's gadfly, confronting him with harsh truths, but his actions and speech are so thoroughly inconsistent that neither Lear, nor the audience ever completely comprehends him. Keraga does a brilliant job of balancing flamboyance and melancholy, credibility and recklessness. His manner and movements, as well as his recitation...
GOING to the movies alone and needing to buy acne medicine were two nightmares just one baby-step inside the walk-in closet of adolescent fears. Try vainly to see the UHS dermatogist for the second, out if Saturday night finds you alone and without the mental stamina to distinguish formulation two of Kant's categorical Imperative from formulation three, then see Bad Manners, a sometimes tacky, sometimes funny, sometimes tasteless, but nearly always funny flick...
...referee in the center of the field distributes to everyone a pistol, holster, carbon-dioxide cartridges, goggles and brightly colored "elimination" vests for those who are shot. Before departing, the referee warns the weekend warriors to be wary of rattlesnakes. Under his breath, Kanew sneers, "You have to distinguish between the snakes in the field and the ones who come to play...