Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...called rival Tryforos "a vicious, adulterous psychotic" and "a thieving slut." Harris described her pain, saying she felt "like discarded trash . . . You keep me in control by threatening me with banishment, an easy threat which you know I couldn't live with." To Bolen, the letter was proof of Harris' pathological jealousy. To Aurnou it was an emotional suicide note within a love letter...
...showing us what he arrogantly considers the "disastrous consequences" of other religions, he will convince us of the righteous claim of the Christian God? Are the consequences of the cult of the cow any more disastrous than the consequences of Christian Crusader zeal? This can hardly be a "rational" proof for the existence...
...gave the world his Every Man for Himself, and not very many wanted it. Truffaut gave them The Last Metro, complete with Cartherine Deneuve and Gerald Depardieu, and everyone sighed. In France The Last Metro has been lavishly garnished with awards and is a huge financial success. It is proof, some would like to think, that nice guys can finish first. It is unfortunately, though, also proof that the line between the compassionate and the superficial is very thin indeed...
...FURTHER PROOF emanates from other tracks on "Telegraph." Buffett delivers the schmaltzy "Stars Fell on Alabama" with more sincerity than sarcasm, when one might expect the reverse from the iconoclast in him. On the Mac McAnally tune "It's My Job," he could almost pass for a neo-conservative. This track alone ought to sell thousands of copies of "Coconut Telegraph" for him down at the B-School...
...that sometimes afflicts photographers exposed to print, Mili offers brief notes on the art of portraiture, illustrating them with dramatically juxtaposed pictures of famous people, among them Pablo Casals, Adolf Eichmann, Jean Paul Sartre, Alfred Hitchcock and Henri Matisse. Perhaps the best is Sean O'Casey, a perfect proof that color film does not always destroy the power and the mood of a portrait...