Word: illusionality
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The lighting of the show, significantly, is done almost entirely with spotlights as opposed to natural stage lighting. The bright circles lend the air of a variety show and never permit the audience the illusion that they are watching a well-constructed play.
As Harvard Political Scientist (Presidential Power) Richard Neustadt has pointed out, it is an illusion to believe that Johnson can ride roughshod over Congress. At a recent Washington meeting of the American Political Science Association, Neustadt observed: "Underneath our images of Presidents-in-boots, astride decisions, are the half-observed...
Sir: You call us "watchdogs of secularism" [Sept. 3]. You should have called us watchdogs of religion. The trouble with you people is that you share the Roman Catholic illusion that if only the churches can become a division of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, the new...
Whatever the reason, there is no doubt that many U.S. girls are now joyously submitting to overexposure. Bikini bottoms have shrunk to two wispy triangles held together with a bit of elastic and a prayer. Tops have plunged dangerously close to see-level, give the illusion that one good wave...
"Hatred is too much for me," confesses the disturbed American woman who is the heroine of this novel, "I can't face it." She means hatred for her ex-husband, a middle-aged philosopher who is a venerable pooh-bear to everyone else in the world but a dragon...