Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...line buried toward the end of Act Three, John tells Carol, "And now I owe you a debt." That line is essentially John's death knell: an admission of obligation, of defeat at the hands of a student, explodes his entire notion of self. Davidson missed the line completely and others like it that show us who John is or might have been. Instead, he favored the longer speeches, merely growing louder as the play hurtled forward. With no real foundation on which to base his portrayal, he reduced an intricate part to a pathetic boor...
Freedom vs. Fear of the Unknown: A Senate hearing room fell silent today as Senator Tom Harkin reflected with quiet passion on the furor surrounding the notion of human cloning. Dr. Ian Wilmut, who produced the cloned sheep Dolly, had told the panel that human cloning should not be all owed, since so many deformed and unviable clones would be produced in order to succeed. Comparing the eager bipartisan opposition to human cloning research to the 17th Century persecution of Galileo for his observation that the Earth revolves around the Sun, Harkin said it was wrong of President Clinton...
...precisely this kind of argument that has given rise to the most hostile attacks on the very essence of the Supreme Court in my lifetime. Calling for radical changes in the structure of the judiciary used to be a kooky notion of the right fringe; now, although currently still a far-right proposition, it has become respectable and more mainstream...
...only U.S. venue), he presents the viewer with an open box containing two iron bars, one straight and one curved. The title of the work tells us they are "To be Bent with the Eyes." Beneath the bars, a graph paper background adds pseudo-scientific validity to the notion that over time our vision will exert some kind of material force on the art object. Here Meireles makes us his collaborator, and we can only wonder how many viewers it will take until the bars curl completely and break through their...
...restore the rule of law while paring the spongy Russian bureaucracy. On that Yeltsin was eloquently vague: "We must promise what can be fulfilled, an d what is promised will be fulfilled," he said. The answer, Yeltsin said, was order -- always a popular notion in Russia, and yet one that the sprawling nation has decidedly lacked in its halting transition to capitalism...