Word: lucidities
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Acting in concert, oil-exporting countries have raised petroleum prices 480% since 1970. Reacting individually, oil importers have had no alternative but to pay-and eventually they may be un able to do even that. In a lucid and frightening analysis in the July issue of Foreign Affairs, Oil Economist Walter Levy contends that the importers must choose, in the words of his title, "World Oil Cooperation or International Chaos...
...Administration bedeviled by scandal, Henry Kissinger stood out as a bright and admired example of integrity. His supporters were already calling him the most successful Secretary of State in this century. Coupled with his foreign policy accomplishments, his urbane wit and lucid intelligence had made him, according to a recent poll, the most popular man in the U.S. Government. Yet there was a small cloud: persistent rumors dating even before his selection as Secretary of State that he might be involved in the rather unpleasant business of wiretapping some of his colleagues...
Tristana. "Sex without religion is like an egg without salt." Luis Bunuel--probably the most fanatical anti-cleric in the history of Iberian civilization--said that, with characteristic lucidity, of this his most lucid film. But it really is lucid: for once, there's no need to pardon this aging genius his obscure symbology or warped sense of humor or ideological obsessions, because Tristana is a beautifully integrated masterpiece. An aging gentleman (Fernando Rey) exploits a young and nunnish dependent (Catherine Deneuve) until she snatches the dominating role away from him, becoming perhaps the crueler tyrant. The story threads lightly...
...year in order to take the $42,500 federally paid job as Nixon's chief Watergate counsel. In action around the White House, St. Clair has struck Haig as "crisp and buttoned-down, but thoughtful and detailed." Adds Presidential Counsellor Bryce N. Harlow: "He's very lucid and clear-minded, very objective, self-assured and poised...
...DiCara. Nobody predicted that he would poll the third highest vote total in the city council elections last election day--that is, nobody except DiCara. The ambitious councilor has a deceptive support that is unlike that of any other politician in Boston. His political strength is a lucid memory and a quick recall of the names and faces of almost anyone he has ever...