Word: illusionality
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Even though Chernenko's health probably caused the last-minute postponement of a Warsaw Pact summit meeting earlier this month, the Soviet press worked hard at creating the illusion that the President was at his desk in the Kremlin. With TV cameras recording the event on Jan. 19, party officials...
Movieland is the ideal roost for a young refugee with big ideas. "Do not listen to the envious and the insensate," warns Pyat. "The illusion of Hollywood is thoroughly tangible." Anything is possible with the Old World in ruins, and Pyat will try anything. He buys a 13-year-old...
At the Maurice Stokes game, an irresistible charity, he was exposing himself only to a few thousand "screaming precocious kids." While coaching the Cincinnati Royals in 1969, Cousy actually came back for a few N.B.A. minutes, merely as the pragmatist cooperating with the merchandisers "trying to jazz up business with...
The change reflects new fashions in art. Impassive styles of the 1960s and '70s - the chaste morsels of minimalism, the arctic pleasures of conceptualism - are now well in retreat before a wave of gesture, expressionism and all the tumult of "painterly" painting. Encouraged by a climate favoring vigor and...
Later, at Harvard graduate school, French friends introduced Wilbur to a wider menu, including such nonclassical literature as the word games of the modernist writer Raymond Roussel and the visionary prose poems of Villiers de 1'Isle-Adam. Molière entered Wilbur's life in 1948 when...