Word: notions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...before the actors appear: all spectators are directed into the theater past the lip of the stage, where they witness the scene of the crime: two effigies of corpses lie sprawled in rags. Above them is a bloodstained mirror in which each onlooker may see his own face. The notion at first seems precious. But at the end, during a redemptive candle-lighting ceremony, Lyubimov brings those battered bodies back to life in the person of actors, only to have their candles, and existences, snuffed out again by another character who echoes the murderer Raskolnikov's belief in arithmetic...
...least likely step is an income-tax increase. Last month Texas Representative Jim Wright, the incoming Speaker of the House, suggested that the tax-rate cut in the new reform legislation be delayed for the wealthiest Americans. Wright's notion was promptly criticized by members of both parties, and he has not broached the subject since...
...time they are juniors and seniors, however, many low-income students say they have realized their initial impressions were inaccurate or at least exaggerated. Lowe, for instance, admits he once had the "pre-conceived notion that [Harvard] was a very white, very East Coast, very well-off school" but now he knows this isn't nearly as pervasive as he imagined...
Channell dismissed as fantasy the notion that his four conservative groups--his nonprofit National Foundation For the Preservation of Liberty, his two affiliated political action committees or Sentinel, his lobbying group--got any such money...
Unlike Wilde, however, Gilbert and Sullivan managed to make virtue fun. In Pirates of Penzance, the musical team ribbed the notion of the 'true Englishman' without discarding the belief that British ways are, after all, the most decent...