Word: objectness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conflicting views from the Soviet Union, both aimed at influencing an act of the U.S. Congress. A gross interference in U.S. politics? Not really, since the object of this unusual international lobbying is Title Five of the Nixon Administration's Trade Reform Act of 1973. That section of the bill would grant the Soviet Union so-called most-favored-nation status as a trading partner, entitling it to lower tariffs. The amendment to which Sakharov refers, as does Brezhnev indirectly, was first introduced nearly a year ago by Democratic Senator Henry Jackson. It would prevent Nixon from placing...
...that there is not an adaptation," says Edward Albee, credited as "screenwriter" for his own A Delicate Balance. "I'm the screen non-writer." Nevertheless, directors and actors all insist that they have produced not static "filmed plays" but new cinematic interpretations. "A three-dimensional object seen from different vantage points" is the way Peter Hall describes Pinter's The Homecoming in its A.F.T. incarnation. "We've not so much opened up the play as closed in on details...
...much Kilson's factual information that I object to," Jewett said yesterday, "as his interpretations and conclusions, though I don't know where he got some of his figures. I though some of his statements about the percentage of middle class blacks were...
...successful commercial cinema. De Sica--whose current illness elicited a message of good cheer from the gathering--was represented by a single film, Pasolini's Orestiad was presented, and Bertolucci's pseudopolitical Before the Revolution was dusted off, but Fellini received no recognition, and Visconti figured only as the object of indignation at news that the director was abandoning professedly leftist views to make his next film for a wealthy rightist publishing concern...
...slowed down, it may be postponed, but in the end it cannot be stopped. In the case of Chile, if they assassinated me, the people would continue on their way; with the difference perhaps that things would be harder, much more violent, because it would be a very clear object lesson for the masses that these people would stop at nothing." --Salvador Allende...