Word: lende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into making a nightclub what it is. Each night they dress the part in appearance and in attitude. In a sense, clubgoers project their fantasies onto the unreal world the nightclub offers. It is a world which condones and often invites the extremes of the imagination. Snippets of conversation lend credence to this view...
Okay, so maybe that's a little overstated. But the folks I know who are "into" The Dead--I'm sure you know some too--lend themselves easily to overstatement. The whole scene has become almost a cultural cliche, and certainly a musical anachronism, but I'm not going to get really mean because some of my Deadhead friends got me a seat on my school's "Dead Bus," which was informally run by several undergrads for transport to the concert. Tickets, I was assured, were no problem. Everyone scalped them at the stadium...
...parade of valuables in Washington might suggest, to the uninitiated, that the British can easily afford to maintain them. Some mildew and burst upholstery would lend poignancy to the subliminal cry for help. In any case, a collection is not a house, and the catchpenny title "Treasure Houses"-- suggesting Palladian Fort Knoxes inhabited by Volpones from Debrett's--does not convey the agreeably worn mixture of the grand and the scruffy that often defines their charm. The show embraces conventions of glamour (mainly about Georgian England) that few social historians would accept today. It rehearses the conventional picture of enlightened...
Wall Streeters are wondering if CBS will become the next jewel in the Tisch empire. Laurence Tisch told TIME, however, that he will lend his advice and expertise to the network rather than try to take charge. Says he: "I have no intention of running the board or CBS or interfering in any of their operations." He also maintains that he will buy no more than 25% of the company's stock...
...stately combat of conflicting points of view, whether about feminism and prostitution in Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession (1902) or about the moral impact of colonialism in Tom Stoppard's Night and / Day (1978). The excitement comes from hearing important arguments stirringly phrased: plays of ideas lend themselves more to epigrams than to cathartic resolutions, and typically end by depicting a withered landscape on which there are only losers...