Word: notions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...joint session of the Senate and House of Commons foreign affairs committee. Responding to tough questions about Soviet arms policy, the Middle East and human rights, Gorbachev presented official Soviet positions calmly and succinctly. He responded testily only when he was asked about KGB activities abroad. The notion that the Soviet Union was exporting revolution, said Gorbachev, was "nonsense, fit for the speech of uneducated people...
...with much of the diplomatic pilgrimage still ahead, a senior U.S. official traveling with the Secretary made the expansive claim that "on the whole, U.S.-Latin relations are doing rather well." In a hemisphere astir with the problems of debt, military menace, and the heady allure of democracy, the notion was comforting but still mercurial...
...notion"), only to be felled moments later by a mysterious snakebite. But such effects are fitted so neatly into place, their significance so finely chiseled, that one almost hears the click of the craftsman's tool. As a result, the energies of Spencer's narrative remain muted, her conclusion equivocal. Even Lex, from whom violence might have been expected (he once pointed a pistol at a triumphant Arnie on campus), drifts off in a paralysis of frustration and despair. The final chapters echo with questions like those Arnie addresses to the Buddha...
...notion that Shakespeare's kings have "the temperaments of actors" leads to a very human yet still theatrically compelling reading of Richard II's "Death of Kings" speech...
...misplaced. In the old noirs, women were mostly seen as black widow spiders, luring the wimpish male toward his doom. Placing a new, healthy vision of female strength in the old context is a beguiling notion. Not that Truffaut lingers over his cleverness in providing recall with a subtext. Mostly he is concerned with driving his vehicle along at a great pace, so that no one notices the occasional knocks in the engine or the potholes in the plot. With help from his cinematographer, Nestor Almendros, who perfectly captures the sleazy artiness of those long-ago B pictures, Truffaut runs...