Word: lucidities
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...four-to six-page issues have an amazingly odd range of material in them, mostly denouncing something or other as a threat to individual liberties and so on. Its future is unclear, but it's interesting to watch, even if the writing in it is something short of lucid...
Despite fears of some West German officials that Carter might make a gaffe in such an open forum, the town meeting showed that the President is more lucid and at ease in a conversational setting than when delivering formal speeches. From Berlin, Carter returned to Bonn, where his ability to argue persuasively across a table was to be tested in a tough forum: the two-day meeting of seven Western leaders seeking ways to stabilize the world economy. And if, after the Berlin visit, Helmut Schmidt was not yet Carter's warmest friend, he could hardly help having been...
...epic grandeur and terror that cry out for a Thucydides, if not a Gibbon to describe them. British Historian Horne, whose previous books include three studies of Franco-German conflicts, may not be in that league, but it is difficult to imagine the story much better told. His lucid, compelling narrative is studded with snapshots of insight; Algiers without the boisterous pieds noirs, he reports, is today a surly, unsmiling city, "with the architecture of Cannes, but the atmosphere of Aberdeen." Horne's judgments are generous and fair, to winners and losers alike. Of the latter, undoubtedly the most...
...hundred years. It is not an innovative or deliberately spectacular structure, as the still debated Centre Beaubourg in Paris turned out to be. Down to the last miter in its warm Tennessee marble cladding, the East Building is intended to be an authoritative, if not exactly authoritarian, statement: balanced, lucid, reflecting the inherently conservative nature of the National Gallery's self-image. The East Building and its concourse (which together cover 604,000 sq. ft.) will be somewhat larger than the older building (522,500 sq. ft.). The new structure may be the most expensive public building to have...
...only real evidence of professionalism comes from Cinematographer Mike Chapman (Taxi Driver), who has shot New York's mean streets in his usual lucid way. The cast varies from bad to worse. Heroine Tisa Farrow speaks as if she were a spaced-out extra on furlough from Blow-Up. Jim Brown, the subject of a 1971 Toback book, is on hand only to act out the script's juvenile racial-sexual fantasies. As the hero, a schizo prone to gesturing with his mouth while banging at the keyboard, Keitel gives the first terrible performance of his career...