Word: lied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other things impress one about the Cape too. To look at the acres of palmetto, the hundred million-dollar buildings, the miraculous machines, and to breathe the words "twenty billion dollars" can't fail to make one wonder. This money is now committed. Beyond it lie the prospects of travel to the planets and the stars, and costs mounting with the same speed as those rockets. And perhaps a few thoughts about priorities. Someone may finally have to answer the question: Why does Rice play Texas
...wants us to accept this world of risks and hunches, of madness and winning rhythms. He fails, however, because he presents neither the people (who they are, where they come from, why they play) nor the dynamics of the game. His focus, his real point of interest, seems to lie somewhere outside the frame. His techniques, because they do not support a reality within the film, become mere gimmicks: hard lines surrounding emptiness and false-echoing silence that are relics of many recent European films...
...version shows a man who tricks others eventually being tricked himself: the avaricious Volpone collects expensive gifts by pretending that he is dying and will leave his fortune to whoever materially proves his friendship. After an extraordinarily complex set of misunderstandings, misdeeds, and mistrials. Volpone is condemned to lie in prison until he becomes as sick as he pretended to be. Following the tradition of "animal fables," all the flatterers who cluster around Volpone ("the fox") bear animal names which indicate the faults they personify--for instance a lawyer is known as Voltore, "the vulture." Almost all of these characters...
...bring the rupiah (currently 22,500 to $1 on the black market) into realistic line. Agents hustled off to other Southeast Asian nations in search of rice for the food-short nation. Wages must still be brought up to meaningful levels, but that much-needed step could well lie in the near future...
...never could invent an effective lie," Novelist Joseph Conrad once confessed. In this richly documented study, Author Jerry Allen demonstrates-with details assembled over a period of ten years from the four corners of the world -that most of Conrad's novels are scene-for-scene, character-for-character transmutations of the extravagant adventures of his youth...