Word: meaningfulness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The man for the job, Scheim asserts, was Lee Harvey Oswald, whose uncle was a member of La Cosa Nostra. Oswald, shooting from a book depository building, would take the fall for Kennedy's death. But, following an old theory, Scheim writes that the angle at which the bullet hit...
The plot, such as it is, turns on the attempts of the Madonna character to interpose her own project, an adaptation of a high-flown allegorical novel about the risks of living in an overly technologized world. The opaque and overwrought passages that she quotes sound unfilmable. Yet even if...
Reunion attempts both to capture the immediacy of those old crises and to give them retrospective meaning. Unfortunately, the author has a somewhat blinkered sense of self-awareness. He rightly credits the student movement with helping to raise the nation's consciousness on such issues as black civil rights and...
"What are the choices that one faces when one decides to enter the world of yuppiedom? He can present them and people can think about them as they wish. We wanted someone who knew the meaning of the word 'morality,'" Schwalbe said.
Another catalog eulogist, Lynne Warren, noting Sultan's commitment to formal painting and his commendable lack of interest in grabbing quotes from visual mass media, winds up with the startling claim that "his works are meditations on the possibilities of transcendent meaning for an audience that has forgotten . . . how to...