Word: overlapping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Racked from within by deep-seated political and religious tensions and troubled from without by neighbors whose feuds overlap borders, Lebanon is something akin to a high-wire act in a hurricane. Last week without warning, it slipped. The result was a bloodbath...
...sure that there is any oversight by the Congress that will prove to be wholly satisfactory. It may be that we can improve congressional oversight. Perhaps we can also more sharply delineate the jurisdiction between the CIA, the FBI and the military agencies so as to minimize the overlap that may now exist. We might prohibit certain kinds of operations: assassination is one possibility. But I don't think that these improvements would be permanent remedies. Possibly we may have to conduct a periodic investigation of the federal police and intelligence agencies...
Dennis J. Saffran '76, a member of D-SOC, says that there is a "lot of overlap" in individual members' politics in both NAM and D-SOC, but that in general, NAM members would subscribe to a more rigid class analysis...
...years back, one of those hype artists that linked himself to the great cause of Astroturf dubbed this particular period of sports as the Overlap season. Nowhere does this sports epithet come in more handy than at one of those tailend games when the voice of Phil Rizzutto, By Saam or Jack Brickhouse mysteriously fades into the voice of Don Meredith, Frank Gifford, or Pat Summerall. It's that period when opening football games and even pre-season shinny matches crowd out the boxscores or relegate the baseball standings in losing towns' newspapers to the last page of the sports...
...with modulation. Altman likes to use microphones so that conversations overlap, swirling in and around each other fast enough that you don't follow any of them but you're getting them all. What you're catching is the way the energy of a room works, the way little events loom and subside. At a poker table you perceive the unconscious underside of the whole group, the cumulative impression that the individuals playing the cards and making the cracks...