Word: exactingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Radcliffe dean of admissions Catherine D. Williston said yesterday that, although she had no exact figures, "responses seem to be coming in more slowly than usual...
...couple of G.I.s popping open beer cans with Mama-san and her whores. Through the bead curtain, a hand lobs a lump of steel. Thump and roll. "Grenade!" Soldier scoops it up, hesitates in stupid disbelief. FLASH! BLAM! So begins-and 140 minutes later, in an almost exact replay, so ends-The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel. Between these two unanswerable exclamation points, Playwright David Rabe strings the lifeline of the soldier, Pavlo; then on that cord he attempts to hang what he sees as the rags of national honor, bloodied by the Viet...
...well to remember that non hierarchic, explicit, participatory processes impose large costs. They disperse responsibility. They are vulnerable to empire protection, logrolling and the like. And they exact a high price measured in divisiveness, and in the time and energy of people whose competence may not reach the particular question at hand...
...said on April 8 that the Corporation would announce its decision by April 14. Both Bok and Burr refused to specify the exact reason for the delay...
...series of short scenes, almost entirely in dialogue. Only the most basic scene-setting and background are provided, and there is almost no exposition of states of mind or feelings. Except for the straightforward action sequences, everything is conveyed by the dialogue. And the dialogue is tremendous: not an exact reproduction of lower-class Bostonese (that would simply get on our nerves), but a perfect simulation of the way semi-literates talk. This is Eddie Coyle talking to Jackie Brown...