Word: protractedness
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On the contrary the weight of the evidence suggests that during the past thirteen years African nationalists in Guinea-Bissau, Angola, and Mozambique have waged a protracted armed struggle that has inflicted great damage to Portuguese military capability as much as it has weakened that country's economic vitality. My...
Yet for all the play's reputation I have to admit that I can't share the general enthusiasm for it as a stage vehicle. Shakespeare was still an immature playwright when he wrote it, and the quality of the result soars and plunges like a fever chart. Much of...
Assuming that there is no protracted wrangling or unforeseen delays-a risky presumption-and that the entire process will run its full course, the following is a rough but plausible timetable:
The hearings had originally been scheduled to be protracted affairs-the House's lasting until mid-December and the Senate's stretching on until early 1974. Congress wanted to take plenty of time to check out the record of Gerald Ford, the nominee of Richard Nixon to become...
Ferreri's greatest problem, however, is that he fails to connect the everyday lives of his characters with their actions at the villa. In the opening scenes, he gives a glimpse of each man's life, but the vignettes connect only superfluous details to the body of the film. This...