Word: scenario
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There is speculation in Paris that Reporters Le Gendre and Plenel received much of their information from the office of Interior Minister Pierre Joxe. He is an old-line Socialist who, according to one scenario, leaked the damaging details in order to lance the Greenpeace boil before it further threatened the government. Another possible motive for Joxe: to savage Hernu, a political rival. The rumors about Joxe's role as an informer multiplied so swiftly that Le Monde took the extraordinary step last week of running a small item under the byline Gorge Profonde, or Deep Throat, that said Joxe...
OVER THE visible divestment activists, men and women who for the most part have used non-confrontational means to make their position known. Consider the worst case scenario: What would happen to the Harvard divestment movement if the CRR kicked out all of these activists? Would we see an end to protest activity, as the administration certainly hopes? Or would the movement take a new turn, under a different set of leaders, tactics unknown...
...imagine the scenario without the proctor...
...will not hide from you my disappointment and concern about what is happening now. We cannot but be troubled by the approach that, as I see it, has begun to emerge in Washington. That is a scenario of pressure, of attempts to drive us into a corner, to ascribe to us, as so many times in the past, every mortal sin--from unleashing an arms race to "aggression" in the Middle East, from violations of human rights to some scheming or other even in South Africa. This is not a state policy, it is a feverish search for "forces...
...runs one part of a scenario for total theater, as imagined soon after the infinitely worse chaos of the First World War by a German collagist, poet and would-be dramaturge, Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948). The scenario casts a long shadow. Schwitters' ambition to assault all the senses with a megalomaniac collage of real things onstage is the middle term between Wagner and the plotless, junk-crammed happenings that were the talk of the New York art world in the early '60s. The more one sees of Schwitters, the more Robert Rauschenberg's and Jasper Johns' work...