Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Occupation then represents a gap in two centuries of bourgeois rule in France, a kind of servant's ball when outcasts can enjoy power for the first time and aristocrats can regain it. On this level, Lucien is a victim, rejected by a society that then turns around and kills him for joining its opponents. His decisions are never ideological; he is killed not because he is immoral but because he is amoral, not because he has made the wrong decisions but because he has made no decisions at all. The people responsible for Lucien's alienation are responsible...
Competing Manias. This elemental tale is played out against a backdrop of the here and now. Heroin brings the Viet Nam War home to a sunny California filled with burnt-out cases from the '60s: deracinated hippies, faded gurus, old people driven mad by the gap between promise and truth. This Western strip of civilization has become a collection of competing manias, and its traces-rooming houses, motels, highways-are perched on the edge of primitive wilderness. Driving out of Los Angeles, Hicks comments on the quick change of scenery: "Go out for a Sunday spin...
Good News. As the bishops streamed home from Rome last week, they could measure the Pope's valedictory against their frank, sometimes adventurous discussions. The gap between the two showed both the limitations and the strengths of the synod. Those who were optimistic-and many were-cited the free exchange of ideas; those who were pessimistic felt that the Pope would resist even some necessary changes...
Former Democratic lt. gov. Francis X Bellotti closely defeated Republican Josiah Spaulding for the office of attorney general. Bellotti moved ahead early in the race but the gap narrowed with 45 per cent of the precincts reporting, Bellotti led by 20,000 votes...
Manson was finally caught because one of his accomplices, Susan Atkins, boasted about the killings. Bugliosi then had to fill the gap between allegations and evidence. Detectives on the Tate case sloughed off his repeated requests to search for the bloody clothing that the killers had discarded. Using leads from a newspaper story, a TV crew found the evidence on the first...