Word: hiatus
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...disappointed by the production, for it seemed a curious hybrid between traditional Shakespeare and obtrusive innovations, draining its energy on gratuitous display. The length of Shakespeare's play does not admit digression; the hiatus left by the youth-spring revellings in the middle of the production proved fatal to the impact of The Winter's Tale...
...science, Ram joined Gandhi's anti-British Congress movement, and wound up in jail as an agitator in the early 1940s. At independence in 1947, Ram was Congress' Minister of Labor-the first of a series of Cabinet positions he has held, with one 28-month hiatus, ever since...
...Kuznetsov home for a meeting of the Supreme Soviet. Meanwhile Peking, for its part, got into the diplomatic game last week by authorizing its chargé d'affaires in Warsaw to meet secretly with the U.S. ambassador-possibly to revive the Sino-American talks after a two-year hiatus...
...subcommittee of the Senate has launched an investigation yet, but what about the U.S. presence in Cambodia? There is one, and it is growing. Since last summer, when Washington and Pnompenh resumed diplomatic relations after a four-year hiatus, the official American community has increased to nine, including two wives, and is soon to be augmented by four additional staffers...
After a month's hiatus, all of the unanswered questions were due to take shape again this week as the Massachusetts Supreme Court meets to consider whether-and on what ground rules-an inquest will be held into the death of Mary Jo Kopechne. Yet the issues of the case have been more psychological and political than legal. Ever since Edward Kennedy's black sedan dropped off the Dike Bridge on Chappaquiddick on July 18, the question of guilt or innocence-or at least a sort of non-guilt-has been tried in the national mind...