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...century romance and passion. By telling the Victorian story, then weaving a parallel story around the romance of the actors making the film. Pinter achieves something of the same sense. The 20th century doesn't just give perspective to the Victorian, but is commented on itself--an important, if implicit, dimension of Fowles's novel...
...Implicit in all such observations is the idea that the lawyer is seeking only someone fair and open-minded, while his antagonist yearns to find bigots and idiots. "It's really foolishness for lawyers to tell jurors that they want them to be impartial," says New York Attorney Herald Price Fahringer. "We all do it, and it's a lie. I don't want an impartial jury. I want a jury that is compatible to my client's cause...
Although the encyclical contains no reference to any particular union, it is difficult to avoid connecting his declarations with Solidarity, the embattled labor federation in the Pope's native Poland: his support is implicit in the document's many references to "solidarity...
...care with which he reads student work, and even more for his judicious criticism--balanced between unhelpful praise and crippling discouragement. "Most students writing fiction are working harder at it and putting more of themselves into it than anything else they are doing," he says, with the implicit suggestion that many a fragile psyche has teetered on the precipice of his blue pencil...
...last week, as Reagan escorted Begin toward his seat for the first White House meeting, Begin dramatically broke away. "Mr. Prime Minister," Reagan called out, "your seat is over here." Begin strode up to a startled Weinberger, thrust out his hand and shook Weinberger's warmly in an implicit apology. Throughout the talks, the Israeli air strikes were never mentioned. Explained Secretary of State Alexander Haig: "We viewed these as circumstances that are behind...