Word: lucidities
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...subjects that interest Begin, according to a Cabinet minister, he is lucid and alert, but on topics that do not engage him he can be "apathetic." Begin has occasionally had such spells before, however, and he has always managed to snap out of them. Says a Western ambassador, pointing to his head: "It hasn't changed him up here. He's still got it up there...
...correct style." Kafka's pathological concern for style was so extreme that only a few tales were published in his lifetime. But the meticulousness that made him a dangling, indecisive figure in life produced modern myths in a prose like shards of glass. It was meant to be lucid, and it was intended to cut. It has drawn blood for 50 years...
...Supreme Court bounced that congressional blank check. In a sweeping decision, the court declared the legislative veto to be an unconstitutional usurpation of power by Congress. Apparently any exercise of the legislative veto amounts to a new piece of legislation, said Chief Justice Warren Burger in a lucid, 39-page majority opinion; Article I of the Constitution dictates that "every Order, Resolution or Vote"-any legislative act-by Congress is subject to the President's approval. "It is obviously easier for action to be taken by one House without submission to the President," Burger wrote, "but it is crystal...
...celebrated composure, Ride was one of 35 candidates picked, six of them women. The other female "Ascans" (NASA slang for astronaut candidates) were equally talented: Judith Resnik, a doctor of electrical engineering; Anna Fisher, an M.D.; Kathryn Sullivan, a Ph.D. in geology; Surgeon Rhea Seddon; and Biochemist Shannon Lucid...
...Ballad of Narayama, is a harshly elemental lyric about Japanese mountain folk that could have been made any time in the past three decades. Two survivors of the international film wars won special consolations, Grand Prize for Cinema Creation: France's Robert Bresson for L 'Argent, a lucid, listless parable about how money corrupts, and the Russian Andrei Tarkovsky for Nostalgia, an agonizing stylistic exercise about a Soviet intellectual in Italy. Monty Python's the Meaning of Life won the Special Jury Prize. At the closing-night ceremony, Python Terry Jones thanked the jury members by name...