Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...history. He acknowledges that his account of the Napoleonic wars tends "to downplay the more personal aspects of this story, such as Napoleon's own increasing lethargy and self-delusion." But the author insists that inspiring < leaders or brilliant generals can at best cause momentary glitches in the relentless "dynamic of world power," which entails constant change both within and between nations. "Those are not developments," Kennedy warns, "which can be controlled by any one state, or individual...
Scenes from a Marriage. They have endured scandal and relentless scrutiny. But after 20 days of campaigning, almost all of them side by side, the question now is: Can Gary and Lee Hart survive this election without driving each other insane? Lee often interrupts her husband's interviews with rambling elaborations of his answers, causing the testy candidate to cut her off. While he was chatting with a group of locals in a New Hampshire diner recently, she bombarded him with questions about what he wanted for breakfast. "Anything," Gary said. "Porridge or doughnuts?" she asked. "Anything, babe," he replied...
AFTER he has lived with the now-grown Cosette (Tamara Jenkins) for some time, Valjean realizes he is devoted to her, and the focal point of his life becomes taking care of his beloved "daughter." However, he must also run from Javert (Herndon Lackey), his relentless parole officer...
...concocter of latter-day Victoriana in his series of mysteries built around Sergeant Cribb, then echoed the early 20th century in the nostalgic Hollywood story Keystone and the brilliantly plotted thriller The False Inspector Dew. Here he returns to 19th century London and, as always, to a subtle but relentless dissection of Britain's unjust social-class system. The rueful, candid voice he gives to the fleshy prince rings true, the details of the horse-racing and music-hall worlds are vivid, and much of the tale is sweetly funny -- as when His Royal Highness, disguised to investigate a murder...
...other extreme, the relentless and ritualized normalcy of a society like Japan's -- there are only four psychiatrists in all of Tokyo -- can, to Western eyes, itself seem almost abnormal. Too few eccentrics can be as dangerous as too many weirdos. For in the end, eccentricity is a mark of confidence, accommodated best by a confident society, whereas weirdness inspires fear because it is a symptom of fear and uncertainty and rage. A society needs the eccentric as much as it needs a decorated frame for the portrait it fashions of itself; it needs the weirdo as much...