Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Here, all the bags of money cannot take away the basic freedoms ensured us by the Constitution, wisely drawn, thank God. We would never vote a really bad rich man into office as President...
...based largely on the testimony, and the movie, if we are to believe the screen credits, is based upon Maas's book, although it could just as easily have been lifted from Dick Tracy's Crimestoppers Textbook. The entire cast, in fact, look as if they were drawn by Chester Gould...
Auteur critics will probably find Haas's camera angles impersonal and they are, each character being framed only in apt context. What we are sensually drawn by is the terse editing, the stylized settings themselves, and a set of performances impeccably unified in their theatricality...
With pun and allusion Nabokov turns words themselves transparent, making meanings flicker through each other. In the light of a bit of high school physics, watch what happens to the sentence: "An electric sign, DOPPLER, shifted to violet through the half drawn curtains..." Several pages later, a woman standing by the same window "wore a Doppler shift over her luminous body...
...outcome of John "Joe" Moakley's challenge to incumbent congresswoman Louise Day Hicks in the newly-drawn 9th District remained uncertain...