Word: persist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...floor, but compliments come to an abrupt halt there. We see all the glamor and fame that filled the tile character's moment in the spotlight, but Nureyev's Valentino remains a distant figure, a romantic anachronism bursting forth with panache and charisma and little else. Russell seems to persist in the belief that audiences enjoy having their senses assaulted and will consider it entertainment; grotesques and caricatures dot the screen in "Valentino," evoking some of Fellini's lesser films. The ambience of the Twenties is effectively recaptured by the film, but "Valentino" never gets around to addressing the ethos...
...thereby abandon another long-held position. To be sure, no one knew in May, when Vance's trip was scheduled, that it would coincide with the Panama debate; moreover, the Administration had been sharply criticized by Asian experts for ignoring China. Probably the impasse in U.S-Chinese relations will persist (see THE WORLD...
Incandescent lava will cover our swamps, our reeking cities, our fields, our flowering hills; it will destroy the contours of that soil we persist in calling "ours...
EASTERN EUROPE. Inequalities persist, there are vital problems ... The great unresolved question survives: that of democracy and of conflicts and contradictions that a unilateral propaganda machine dissimulates but does not resolve...
Beyond that background, another reason that questions persist is that no official investigation has even attempted to lay out publicly all the details of Ray's involvement in King's murder. When Ray pleaded guilty in court on March 10, 1969, Tennessee prosecutors merely declared that they had examined all the evidence compiled by local and state police, the FBI and even international agencies and concluded that "we have no proof other than that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed by James Earl Ray and James Earl Ray alone, not in concert with anyone else...