Word: lied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...filmed by the KGB and shown as a typical day in the life of Sakharov. The films depicting Sakharov's life that I saw in America were edited to create the impression of a normal life, a normal state of health. Actually, it is one big hoax, a horrible lie. Another time, the world could watch films about our well-being when we are no longer alive...
...April 25, 1983, I suddenly felt something sharp pierce me. I could not move or cry out. Then, slowly, almost creeping along, I reached Andrei's nitroglycerine pills by the side of his bed. The pain subsided after a moment, and I could call Andrei and lie down. That was the start of constant nitroglycerine and other medicine. I still had bouts of nausea and incredible weakness. Since I am a doctor, I did everything for myself -- patient and doctor at the same time. I knew it was a heart attack, but I tried to deny it subconsciously...
...There are professors at Harvard who are so brilliant that it doesn't matter if they can teach," he said. But, he added, Harvard also has professors who are devoted and capable teachers, who compensate for those whose strengths lie outside the classroom...
...closer community and potentially a happier one. The consequences of excessive family freedom need not be as dramatic as in the Levin killing. Little murders are committed daily in homes where Mom and Dad sit planted in front of pieces of paper or The Cosby Show, while the children lie still as dolls on their beds and gaze at ceiling fixtures, like stations in a dream. See how free everybody is. The only things missing are the essentials: authority, responsibility, attention and love...
...sure, Banks' transformation one of the world's oldest extant theatrical forms into an accessible Western production--is a daunting one. And his use and integration of other media--photography, film and music--is both effective and inventive. The problems lie rather in a confusing story line and in the stiff, stylized acting that slowly deadens the strange and haunting power of Yukio Mishima's 1955 adaptation...