Word: notions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lighten up, everybody. This election is well within the normal range of modern American presidential contests -- which is to say, it is fairly ^ earnest, notably clean and even informative, if you know what to look for. A glance at the record dispels the notion that this election is peculiarly dirty or dishonest. Only eight years ago, the election was marred by loose, guilt- by-association swipes involving the Ku Klux Klan. The farther back you look, the worse it gets. In the Democratic-Republican propaganda of 1800, the Federalists were alleged to be cryptoroyalists and Anglomaniacs; the Federalists, in their...
...occasion for larger reflections. Her collected work is a map of her consuming passions: the French writer Roland Barthes, the German critic Walter Benjamin, the filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard. (In her spare time, she has directed four films abroad.) All her work aims at defining a vaporous but crucial notion, the modern sensibility. She combines a metropolitan taste, omnivorous and hard to satisfy, with a transatlantic mind, drawn to European writers and filmmakers. Often she discusses them in the European form of fragments and epigrams. "I get impatient with linear forms in which you go from...
...Sontag is concerned, her positions have been parodied. She winces at being pegged as a reckless advocate of writers at the edge of madness or extremity. Her essays, she says, give "a skewed notion of my taste" because she only discussed figures about whom she felt more needed to be said. "And the last thing in the world that I am is anti-intellectual. Even in the most high-spirited, somewhat simplifying formulations in some of those essays -- after all, I was in my 20s and full of combative spirit -- I was defending a much more serious approach...
Reebok, with particularily canny marketing genius has pinpointed precisely this exacting clientele. In many ways, Reebok is the ultimate conformist shoe. But Reebok is exploiting the notion that we can distinguish ourselves as individuals according to what is in our closet, on our shelves or in our refrigerator or garage. Buy these shoes, the ads tell us, if you really know what you want...
...others wounded, the U.S. State Department rebuked Israel by saying there is "no justification" for deliberately causing Palestinian casualties. Some U.S. officials charge that Rabin's plastic bullets are aimed at the voters. The Defense Minister, considered the No. 2 figure in Israel's Labor Party, dismisses the notion that his new crackdown is politically motivated. But he makes no apologies about stepping up the army's operations. "The rioters are suffering more casualties," he told reporters during a tour of the West Bank. "That is precisely our aim. Our purpose is to increase the number of ((injured)) among those...