Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviets fairly sophisticated electronic calculating machines and advanced industrial chemicals and tools, like high-speed welding devices. The reason is that the Soviet Union is far more technologically advanced than China, so the U.S. is not selling Moscow any significant research-and-development knowledge that it does not already possess. For their part, the Chinese, who are eager to develop their technological abilities, would most likely only be interested in U.S.-made products if they could buy advanced machinery and other equipment. They can already buy nearly all the manufactured goods on the U.S. list from Japanese suppliers-and probably...
...conclusions from intelligence information. It is extraordinary how often our side was wrong about what the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong could and would do. We have consistently underestimated their military capability-especially their ability to adjust to our moves-and we have overestimated their interest in negotiating. We possess tons of captured enemy documents. We have interrogated thousands of prisoners and flown thousands of reconnaissance sorties. Our South Vietnamese allies presumably have agents on the ground in North Viet Nam. Yet the enemy has repeatedly surprised...
Pinter is not out to anatomize nostalgia or even to strip it naked, but to show how people use memories as weapons. The woman visitor and the husband vie with each other to possess the wife by possessing her past. In the process they ruthlessly select and reshape "old times," casting each other in roles to suit their own purposes. Did the woman or the husband introduce the wife to the movie Odd Man Out! Did the husband once meet the woman in a pub and go to a party with her where he gazed up her skirt? The answers...
...tone of the letters is warm. At one point, the Berrigan letter addresses Sister Elizabeth as "love," and the Government is known to possess other letters of a more passionate and poetic character. How did the Government get these letters? They were carried in and out of the prison by Boyd Douglas, 30, a prisoner serving time for passing bad checks, pointing a gun at an FBI agent, and violating his parole on a previous fraud conviction. Douglas was trusted enough by prison officials to be allowed to leave his cell daily to attend history and political science classes...
...Class Images: Solanas' principal means of demystification is the division of images along class lines. Structurally this entails assailing immediacy by placing all elements within a context of material contradictions, a dialectical syntax already discussed. On the level of individual images-the sign-system-class division means that appearances possess abstract class associations and at the same time serve as concrete receptacles for the ideology presented by the sound-track. These images are not called upon to reproduce reality, but to act as models used in discussing, describing, criticizing reality. Rather than collecting a predominance of "convincing" visual examples...