Word: notional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beckett's intensity maintains his little joke to its very end. It makes The Lost Ones a sort of parable driven to death among details--the rough grayness of flesh in the cylinder, the mindless exactness ruling the wanderings of its denizens. It takes a single notion and analyzes it into a whole underworld...
...STRANGE NOTION: people living "inside a flattened cylinder fifty metres round and eighteen high," bounded by hard rubber walls, pulsing with shadowless yellow light, oscillating between extreme heat and cold--"abode where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost one." A first reaction: as if among an audience, hearing a doubtful line, you are tempted to snicker, until looking around you see all the rest staying silent and sober, and the glint in the speaker's eye refusing to lighten his dead...
...vote on the question. They must also mull over a proposal to strike down criminal penalties for growing and possessing marijuana. Proposition 19, as it is known, does not condone the use of marijuana or legalize its sale. It does, however, permit smokers to grow their own grass. The notion is that pot users could then avoid dealing with pushers, who might also peddle harder drugs. The proposition's supporters point out that it is closely in line with recommendations of the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse, a resolution adopted by the American Medical Association...
Harvard officials originally planned to schedule a game with Notre Dame. But Notre Dame at the time was toying with the notion of playing the Czechs, and the idea caught on with both colleges. The Czechs would most likely play a game with Notre Dame before coming to Cambridge...
...using photographs, maps, and verbal statements. By applying such structures to events--such as mapping the route of an empty package sent to six different U.S. towns--he gives the viewer an insight into how we order our thoughts about daily events. It is the viewer's notion of conceiving the event that Huebler finds artistic...