Word: lying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What credit for the state of this Much Ado that does not lie with the spirits must be lodged squarely with director Kenny McBain and his design staff. The actors are uniformly competent, and a few considerably more, but it would serve little purpose to discuss their work in more detail here. The effort is marred not by any deficiencies in performance, but by an ineluctable thinness of dramatic conception which the best performances could do little to amend or disguise...
Should over-all deterrence fail, it would give the President the option of a flexible response rather than a spasm response, as the nation would not lie naked to the Soviet attack. Our weapons would have more chance of survival for use as needed...
...longer pretend that this war results from a lack of educated Army officers; we must recognize that its roots lie in all institutions of our society, including the university. ROTC trains 70% of the Army's junior officers, men who are sent to battle against the Vietnamese and other liberation movements all over the world. ROTC is only the least subtle of the university's many contributions to the U.S. foreign policy of domination, but our fight against ROTC threatens the status quo in courses, admissions, research, investments arid disciplines as well...
...spent developing the story. In an army camp, circa 1945, a British major (David Niven) tries to impose order on an overflow of displaced persons. From the serried ranks a leader named Janovic emerges. As played by Topol, he is a sleight-of-tongue artist. Janovic can lie in a dozen languages and seduce a girl with the drop of a decibel. He is also a deserter from the Russian army...
SOON I was clearly in Boston, the calf getting worse and my grimaces thrilling bystanders. Then some guy finally said, "Last mile." It was a lie, of course, but the race was undeniably nearing completion. The Prudential came closer and closer. Estimates by the crowd of distance remaining was all contradictory and more a handicap than a help. But they meant well...