Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sinatra, however, scoffs at the notion of slowing his pace, much less retiring. "((My wife)) Barbara would like me to spend more time at home, but I tell her to pack some things, bring the puppies, and we go," he said in last week's communication with TIME. "You write for a magazine -- I tour. It's what I do, what I enjoy doing...
...Lewis has long had a love-hate relationship with theater. And these days, you can hold the love. He says he is infuriated at the traditional notion "that film is the Faustian sellout. I personally think there are works in cinema history which have as much to say to us as any great piece of theater. It's never been an overriding ambition of mine to become what they call in Britain a classical actor. It's been a number of people's ambition on my behalf -- but that's just because of my nose. I was given a nose...
...births, weddings, funerals, feasts--in an obvious attempt to show the circularity of life from death to rebirth, tragedy to hope, etc. Another grand theme of this novel is the attempt to use the sea as a link between the little village and the world at large, using the notion of the sea as a universal constant to extrapolate this story into a commentary on human Existence. To quote the blurb on the jacket of this book, Benitez is trying to create "a picture of life that is both a universal portrait and an insider's look at life...
First of all, where does Jenkins get the idea that the Asian American Association (AAA) is just one "small ideological step removed from the Ku Klux Klan?" The notion that the KKK is only taking "the next small step," by believing that its view is "superior" is nonsense. I think he is just searching for something that is nonexistent...
...doesn't turn out to be successful, I adore the process." The speaker is Mikhail Baryshnikov, the greatest dancer of his time, whose interpretations of the classical male roles set the standard for the 1970s and '80s, and probably for a long time to come. In those years the notion of this paradigm of nobility mixing it up with modern dance seemed absurd. But a closer look at the record reveals he was already seeking out alliances with modern choreographers. When Twyla Tharp created Push Comes to Shove for him in 1976, she revealed a whole new Misha: rueful, droll...