Word: lucid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exaggeration to say that ignorance and arrogance define the American attitude toward Mexico. The exceptions have been a few lucid and generous men and a handful of poets, historians, teachers, scientists, humanists. None have appreciably influenced popular opinion, let alone Washington. This is regrettable: the perpetuation of this attitude is and will continue to be fatal for the U.S. and for the whole continent. It is hardly necessary to recall the case of Fidel Castro, whom Washington pushed toward Moscow (or to whom, at least, the U.S. gave the pretext for falling into Soviet arms). Without firing a shot...
...highly photogenic landscapes and people of Islam. It is a warm and sympathetic vision of the family of man, Muslim branch. In the past, Duncan's versatile lens has memorably captured war, American presidential politics and Pablo Picasso. The gaze he directs at Islam is, as always, lucid and superbly dramatic...
With this book, Timerman banks on that cacher For from the beige and brown title on the front to the author's picture on the back, the book is singularly devoid of anything new in the way of facts, valuable impressions or lucid argument. It comprises 167 pages of maundering glop whose gloppishness ought to be abundantly evident to the most fanatical West Bank settler as well as any bomb-chucking PLO member, provided both have a half a frontal lobe in working order...
...little dialogue and only spare interior monologue Jeremy Irons managed to capture and delineate every nuance of his character's brooding intensity. An equally superb performance is that of writer-director Skolimkowski. Conceived and completed in one month. Moonlighting shows a rare combination of white hot inspiration and totally lucid artistic control. Every scene, from the opening to the remarkable closing image is effective and forms a part of considered whole. The almost documentary like cinematography captures the dark visual textures and somber Irony of the story...
...blunt with Reagan even in private. He did not tell the President he had been wrong to impose the sanctions or, as the high-strung Alexander Haig might have done, threaten to quit if the policy was not reversed. Instead, he acted more like a reassuring but lucid tutor with Reagan. He knew that the President would not abandon his wish to punish the Soviets. Shultz's basic stance was that restrictions on the export of advanced Western technology to Moscow, if the ban had the support of all NATO allies, would far more effectively prick the Soviet economy...