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...would almost certainly follow the leader, although some first-class teams, like East Germany's, would be dismayed at the prospect of forfeiting their virtually assured bushel of medals. For the moment, the Administration believes the Soviets are merely exploiting the situation for propaganda purposes, possibly hoping to extract some concessions from Olympic officials in Los Angeles. The U.S. argues that it has lifted, for the period of the Games, an existing ban on Soviet airliners carrying passengers into the country and has granted permission for a Soviet ship to be used as a floating hotel. Administration officials maintain...
Such portentous clues will no doubt play very well in classrooms and seminars. Teachers can I extract from the novel a long list of I topics for discussion. Scholarly journals should prepare for a host of submitted articles bearing titles punctuated with the obligatory colon ("Art I vs. Life: The Self-Loathing Narrative ill of Wilfred Barclay"). All this freewheeling interpretation in depth may obscure the fact that The Paper Men implies significance through lapses rather than design. The autobiographical touches suggest that Golding wished to settle a few scores with critics and also to satirize the "paper...
...policy on official secrecy continues. In response to my request for access to archival materials at the Law School, Assistant Dean Stephen M. Bernard informed me that no waiver of the 50-year rule would be granted. The reasons? One,"--the task of going through these materials to extract the ones relevant to your request was daunting and would involve my spending an amount of time on this project that I simply do not have." Second,"...you would probably be dissatisfied with the results of a process that involved my filtering out--on the basis of factors relating...
...voyeur; in Hitchcock's world they make a perfect sadomasochistic pair. In Rear Window it is a salesman-killer (Raymond Burr) and a photographer with a broken leg (Stewart) who ives across the courtyard. This roving lensman may be immobile for the moment, but he knows how to extract meaning from pictures-and there is something wrong with this one. He turns amateur detective and puts his "leg man" (Kelly) at risk digging holes in a mysterious garden, clambering into second-story windows, even confronting Mr. Bad. Early in the film, the exhibitionist is discovered; at the end, Stewart...
...Buchwald's the best there is. He really knows how to extract money," Brustein said of his friend...