Word: expression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pinter's silences and manipulation of tempo are crucial--they illuminate the dark spaces behind his terse, economical language, convey the Matchseller's power over Edward, and express (in The Dwarfs) Len's isolation and the abyss into which his attempts at communication disappear. Edward and Flora's stream of consciousness babble must be broken by pauses if we are to understand how he comes to destroy himself and dies a symbolic death, while she rediscovers herself and finds a new life...
That is doubtful. Nominally, the congress is responsible for drawing up local budgets and passing national policy resolutions. But as the delegates knew, any decisions would be subject to ratification by Gaddafi's all-military Revolutionary Command Council. Still, many of the congress-goers took the floor to express grievances and make their views known. The proceedings, lasting eight to ten hours daily, were telecast nationally, and Gaddafi made no move to clear the hall (as he had done at the congressional session in January) of outsiders who might draw wrong conclusions about Libyan unity...
...nervous, numbers-obsessed world of television programming, there are two gauges of success: Nielsen ratings, which measure popularity in percentages of all TV-owning households, and audience shares, which express the preferences of only those households with sets turned on. By the second standard, ABC is not exactly burning up the air waves. Its most recent weekly audience share was 18, the same as the average share for the month before Walters arrived. For CBS, however, the share has risen from 29 to 30. NBC's share has dropped from...
...battles, arrests and deaths are stages on the main line of the "Orient Express"-the lethal route from Asia's opium-rich Golden Triangle (the intersection of Burma, Laos and Thailand) to Amsterdam, distribution center for Europe's booming dope market...
...London tabloids, the News of the World and the Sun (combined circ. 9 million), celebrate crime and cheesecake. In the U.S., Murdoch's three-year-old national Star (circ. 1.3 million) is a gaudy but not particularly profitable cousin of the mindless National Enquirer, and his San Antonio Express and News (combined circ. 156,000) is even worse (sample scoops: UNCLE TORTURES TOTS WITH HOT FORK, HANDLESS BODY FOUND, GIRLS STREAK AT GUNPOINT). Yet Murdoch also publishes Australia's only national daily, The Australian, which at least aspires to quality, and he is currently bidding...