Word: isn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with eight goals in her last three games and a bleeding monkey lying behind her, Kelly Landry isn't doing any looking back...
Just what kind of man would fall in love with a woman he knows he doesn't love? A masochist perhaps. Yet Swann's personality isn't reduced to such a simple formula. He is a Jewish assimile whose family's conversion to Christianity is fuel for the gossips of 19th century Paris. He is a talented dilettante always working on an unseen book, an aesthete always surrounded by beautiful objects. Yet any possible cinematic beauty is subdued in Swann's apartments. His rooms look musty, they invite select rays of sun; in short, his enviroment reflects his thoughts...
...also ensured artistic success by relying on the talents of Jeremy Irons, best known as Charles Ryder in the PBS production of Brideshead Revisited. Playing a neurotic isn't easy, but playing him in another language is a real test of skill. To be sure, in the version released in France, Irons' voice was dubbed in, but the American version displays Irons speaking a remarkably fluent French. His accent only adds to Swann's vaguely foreign origins...
...THIS argument is based on the assumption that the ratio of educated volunteers to total volunteers is a constant. It isn't. The Armed Forces may be attracting more volunteers, but it isn't necessarily attracting more, qualified volunteers. That's why there is continuing pressure to lower standards, to teach weapons to deal with illiterates rather than the other way around...
...NCPAC isn't marching alone. A new breed of self-styled "populist" conservatives, many supported by the Moral Majority and its clones, is attacking what has always been politically unattackable since the Great Depression: the welfare state...