Word: roland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with research on Star Wars technology. Britain and West Germany, while still harboring strong doubts about eventual deployment, have independently grown more interested in the research program's industrial potential; one key West German defense official predicts that it will lead to "a third technological revolution." French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas proclaimed that the S.D.I. contains "an element of seduction...
WITH THE SUBJECT is oneself, what is there to say. Roland Barthes believes that "very often, you know, in interviews...a somewhat sadistic relationship is established between the interviewer and the interviewee, where it's a question of ferreting out some kind of truth...I only know that it's a rather traumatic experience that provoke in mean "I have nothing to say response...
...trauma is hardly in evidence in The Grain of the Voice, a collection of interviews that appeared in various journals from 1962 to 1980; what is in evidence is the voice of Roland Barthes, preserved and displayed: "We have embalmed our speech like a mummy, to preserve it forever." Yet an important difference exists--no death has occurred, nor will it ever. The voice, though disembodied, continues to speak, familiar, reassuring, exasperated and sometimes exasperating...
...Roland Barthes, we see very little of you, and you rarely speak in public; aside from your books, we know almost nothing about...
...COMPLETE fulfillment of this desire this greedy expectation which engenders such questions as. "So, then the lover who speak is really you, Roland Barthes?" (Playboy. 9 77), would result in a "perversion" of sorts. As it is, we remain disengaged but eventually innocent, legitimate spectators rather than accomplices, "Perversion," Barthes says, "quite simply, make one happy": though this may be a principle of "bliss," a certain "pleasure" lies with this chaste silence. "Your question is a good one, not because I have an answer ready, but because it touches on something absorbing...