Word: illusionality
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Behavior has changed. The Peace Corps' effort in the last two years to improve language proficiency has been called the most significant force in linguistic development in the nation today. Still, for one whose Spanish still halts after a year in Latin America, sensitivity is indeed a distressing problem. The...
In a final gesture, the narrator seems to turn up the house lights to reveal that his tale is only an illusion. As he sees it, writers are "liars" who continually try to hide the truth because it can drive men mad. So the reader is advised: "Let us all...
The lighting, designed by Bennington and executed by a Loeb team, didn't do much to help. For the most part, the dancers were clumsily spotted by pools of light cast from above. Thus foreshortened from overhead, the desired illusion that the dancer's motions cut through space was difficult...
The genre was launched a couple of decades ago by Upton Sinclair in his Lanny Budd novels and was developed with sharper expertise by Allen Drury with Advise and Consent and Fletcher Knebel with Night of Camp David and Seven Days in May. The success of such books depends on...
Players v. People. But these are peripheral faults. Of greater importance are the picture's virtues, including Brooks's grimly detailed study of the wintry Kansas plains and his scrupulous attention to authenticity-the Clutter home itself was used, the murders filmed in the room where they occurred...