Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...language is wretched but was it meant to be? Whatever we decide Miss Jones has the best of it. Her self-deflation, ponderous and abetted by a bit of typological cuteness, is nonetheless successful, and we are left to wonder whether it was diction or sexuality or both which fretted her. such antics, like self-criticism in general or romanticism in general lead only to an adolescent recognition of self--which is the beginning not the end of investigations...
...leggiest of World War II pinups and famed as Babe Williams in 1954's The Pajama Game. "This is the show I've been waiting for all my life!" said Janis, and the first performance proved her right. "I never realized what an ovation meant until I heard what happens at Mame," she sighed...
...average museumgoer, on the other hand, will be mystified by a large gallery full of airy, forgettable abstract canvases. These are meant to support the French thesis that Paris, and not New York, invented abstract expressionism in the 1950s (the French call their version tachisme, or staining). Hélas pour la grandeur, for just the reverse is shown. By comparison with the work turned out by the dynamic U.S. action painters, the French products look timid, prettified and unconvincing?with a few exceptions, most notably the stark abstractions of Pierre Soulages...
Electric and Pratt & Whitney; the Rolls RB-211 turbofan was the engineers' choice because of efficiency and lower noise levels. But at $2,500,000 a plane, the British-made engines meant a $235 million drain on the U.S. balance of payments. Lockheed solved this with an arrangement in which Ah" Holdings will sell 50 of the early L-1011s abroad. This will bring in $625 million for a favorable U.S. balance of $390 million, and further sales in a market estimated at 1,000 planes by 1980 could raise the U.S. excess to well over $5 billion dollars...
Though he has a reality that belongs to him alone, Bora is manifestly meant to be a symbol as well. In his final contribution to the film's bleak catalogue of miseries, he stabs his rival and flees the town. As he disappears, he be comes all gypsies-the Indians of rope who can neither escape nor brace the present and whose future is foreshadowed with doom...