Word: notional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fruits of his labor: "Two exhibitions, ten private sales, a deal of barter." Clem no longer leaves their apartment on the top floor of a crumbling London house; he drinks and stares at the reproach of blank canvas. Lena goes shopping once a week, toys dispiritedly with the notion of leaving Clem and the airless gloom that enshrouds him. Clem reads her thoughts and reminds her: "If you left me, I'd fall down. But so would you" Hanley lightens this bleak, static scene only once-with a long flashback to World War II and the London blitz, when...
Just a year ago, he was walking up to men and women who did not know he existed, shaking their hands and drawling, "I'm Jimmy Carter, and I'm going to be your next President." The notion seemed preposterous, and most political professionals were dead sure he did not have a chance?but none of the voters laughed in his face. He was such an engaging man?a trifle shy, for all his gall, and there was that sunburst of a smile that people would always remember. Right from the start, he was perceived as being a rather different...
...John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion had the clever notion of resetting this story in the rock world, where heady glamour and careening careers furnish the closest contemporary equivalent of the Hollywood flush years. Barbra Streisand and her inamorato Jon Peters weighed into the project as Dunne and Didion drifted away. Batteries of writers and directors were exhausted before the present version was put together under-or perhaps around-Director Frank Pierson (The Looking Glass War). Yet, what the serious quarterlies call "the authorship" of A Star Is Born is unclear. Responsibility must surely rest with Streisand and Peters...
...been to convince his colleagues that detente with the West is desirable and necessary. The thriving state of Communist parties in Italy, France and elsewhere is taken by Moscow as proof of capitalism's weakness-although Brezhnev is less pleased that these par ties are successfully resisting the notion that all ideological truth emanates from Moscow. Brezhnev's main failure has been in the Middle East, where two of the Kremlin's most trusted clients, the Syrians and the Palestinians, spent much of this year shooting at each other. Another old ally, Egypt, has abrogated its Treaty...
...fire; the stars, he thought, were the lights of these fires shining through tubelike breathing holes in the sky. Another citizen of Miletus, Anaximenes, believed the stars were fixed like nails to the vault of the heavens. Aristotle maintained that celestial objects were permanent, immutable and perfect. His notion so influenced Greek thought that when the astronomer Hipparchus spotted what seemed to be a new star in 134 B.C., he attributed his discovery to an omission by his predecessors. He also compiled the first accurate star map so that future sky watchers would be spared his dilemma...