Word: partially
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THEORY II: PARTIAL HOAX. Irving came up with authentic Hughes material, but did not obtain it in the way that he said he did. How else could he have...
Unchanged Light. De Chirico's empty squares and silent towers seem at first to be conceived as a partial homage to the Italian Renaissance. It is a windless, ideal space where the light never changes and shadows do not move. Human figures are either distant specks or huge, sculptural presences-bronze father figures on plinths, reclining "classical" marbles or faceless wooden dummies. But this world has none of the solidity of Renaissance townscape. Instead, it is enigmatic and spectral; the perspectives tilt irrationally and contradict one another, the façades are cardboard, the inhabitants ghosts. "These characters...
...pick of the collection is the title story, which is a partial return to the dream kingdoms of the earlier works. With powerful brevity, Borges limns a decadent nation where language-and all that it implies of hope and beauty -is the execrated enemy. Disdaining vowels, Borges' updated Yahoos grunt only in consonants. When they want to open what passes for a conversation, they fling mud. Their king is protected from mortal corruption by being blinded and castrated...
...will find that there was hardly a scientist who was privy to classified information because of his active part in government operations who ever made any public--either written or oral--statements on these matters involving security. The first change in that came about when the partial test ban treaty was signed and came up for Senate ratification. At that time, I was asked by the Administration to testify along with a number of others, like York, who had been in the government but were not in it full time anymore. I had vague qualms as to whether I should...
...construction site, he was told to take off by Dennis Walton, a burly six-footer who also happens to be a member of Operating Engineers Local 675. Lassitter apparently did not move fast enough, so Walton knocked him down and pummeled him so badly that he still suffers a partial hearing loss...