Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contemplate making his popular farces because of his determination that he has to do something about the wretchedness of this planet, but his efforts to do serious works are unsuccessful and barely tolerated. At that, the quality of his work scarcely matters because his audience applauds even his commonplace remark. He's trapped no matter what he does. When he gets a chance to ask a space visitor what he can do for mankind he gets this sage advice: "Make funnier movies...
...finding of guilt, but increases the possibility that litigation would be required to resolve the dispute. The NLRB issued the complaint without speaking to Crockett. Powers said, "The NLRB thought I didn't care whether it issued a complaint. It was just a misunderstanding--the NLRB agent misinterpreted a remark of mine...
...PLAYWRIGHT. "We are beginning to have real freedom of speech in China." That remark by Tsao Yu, 70, the head of the Chinese Dramatists' Association and one of the country's best-known playwrights, is an exaggeration. There is still considerable supervision of what is written and published in China. But Chinese dramatists have been persistently bold since the Western-style art form was restored in 1979. In the past two years, dozens of plays have criticized China's shortcomings, stressed the personal hardships caused by political turmoil and savagely lampooned leaders who were corrupt or incompetent...
...Ogden, the remark was further evidence of what he sees as a dramatic difference between Carter the President and Carter the campaigner...
...parents, Julian asked Melville for recollections about his relationship with Hawthorne senior. Melville seemed reluctant to discuss the matter, and sadly shook his head when Julian encouraged him to describe his visits to the Hawthorne home. In the course of their conversation, however, the author made one puzzling remark: "He was convinced Hawthorne had all his life concealed some great secret, which would, were it known, explain all the mysteries of his career." Melville, probably still harboring some resentment against the reserved Nathaniel, had his own reasons for making this assertion; yet his statement holds a certain grain of truth...