Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slight quibble with Thomas Griffith's contention in Newswatch [April 14] that the adversary relationship between press and Government lacks a judge: in fact, the reading public judges, shortly after every publication goes to press...
...related to U.S. energy needs, because Saudi Arabia is involved, could cause severe and lasting damage to Jerusalem's relations with Washington. Some influential American Jews warned the Israeli government privately that it could probably win on this issue, but at a grave cost to its special relationship with...
...prepared to take that chance. He opposed the sale of modern American weaponry to the Saudis, but he was even more concerned that a package deal would set a pattern for equating U.S. aid to Israel with similar aid to Arab countries. "This would tend to weaken our special relationship," said one Israeli official, "and strengthen Arab relations with America, and that is not in Israel's interest." Dayan stopped short of saying publicly that Israel would rather give up the planes it stood to gain than see the whole package go through, but many Israelis took that position...
...some extent, the connection can be made: both plays are about romances, both involve the relationship between a rather stupid nobleman and his bright, if not well-born, valet, and both go through intricate plots before the romance proves successful. There, however, the connection ends...
...little less cutesy. To begin with, there's a major shift in mood: Figaro is not straight comedy, which The Barber certainly is. Instead, it is a fairly cynical look at marriage (the four-years-later episode of Count Almaviva and Rosina's romance), the master-servant relationship (the Count repays Figaro's first act help by demanding the droit du signeur of Figaro's bride), all made more complicated than necessary by intrigues and mishaps. The cast manages generally to overcome the mood-change by keeping the tone as lighthearted as possible and by stressing funny one-liners...