Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...during the 1920's are all instances of a culture's last frenzy before the deluge Accurate or not, dozens of films, including movies as diverse as "Gone with the Wind," "Cabaret" and most recently "La Nuit de Varennes," have sought to document these moments, sometimes for memory's sake and others as warning...
...possible for the audience to identify with individual athletes," he explains. Every four years, McKay searches for something rarely seen nowadays, something that, ironically, has been lost in part through the very medium in which he works. He looks for people who strive for perfection for its own sake. Notes McKay: "The word amateur comes from the French and Latin words for lover. So what I really admire are people who do it because they love...
...MAJORITY cynically mourns not a lost life, but a lost opportunity to capitalize on the ensuing political confusion. Beyond this callousness, impressive for its own sake, lurk even more deeply disturbing political misconceptions...
...liberal West. Some offer additional justifications. A mos Oz in the recently translated In the Land of Israel: "A living civilization is a drama of struggle between interpretations, outside influences, and emphases, an unreleating struggle over what is the wheat and what is the chaff, rebellion for the sake of innovation, dismantling for the purpose of reassembling differently, and even putting things in storage to clear the stage for experiment and new creativity...
...consistency's sake at least, they are following the tradition of a club that once sold a left-handed pitclier named Babe Ruth to the Yanks...