Word: dulles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE NO. 1. Walter Mondale's unexpected humor; President Reagan's awkward pauses; Moderator Barbara Walters' lecturing of the audience: between two dull conventions and a runaway election, this face-off to chart the course of the Free World was the political year's most interesting TV news event...
...main narrative line. That narrative, richly peopled with types Forster encountered on two long trips to India, is quite straightforward. Psychologically, the point on which it is poised is the suppressed emotional tipsiness of Adela Quested. As played in the movie by Australian Actress Judy Davis, Adela is dull at first glance but with a wild surmise glowing in her eyes, her gestures half formed, alternately acknowledging and denying the curious new telegraphy that India is dot-dashing through her ganglia. She will have her adventure! She will touch, as the Anglo-Indians keep refusing to, Indian reality...
That is because though the point may seem crucial to the narrative, it is actually insignificant thematically. What is important is, of all things, the echo. " 'Boum' is the sound as far as the human alphabet can express it, or 'bou-oum,' or 'ou-boum'?utterly dull," is the way Forster rather unhelpfully describes...
Director Nela Wagman '84, in her first stint as director, does a superb job. Wagman's challenge is to let three characters in one room be neither distracting nor dull. Even at their best, the actors seemingly move spontaneously under her subtle direction...
Lasch's work must be seen less as an individual effort than as a late and rather dull development in a very long tradition of American thought. Lasch belongs to that school of intellectuals which insists on understanding life from a theoretical point of view. This school is in the habit of frequently changing its textbooks; but the form of its message (as opposed to the matter) remains constant. Whether one is religious, Marxist, or Freudian (to take these texts in historical, perhaps hysterical order), one is in possession of the truth: the welfare of the rest of the country...