Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...communication of certain categories of information. In each area the report treats a representative sampling of relevant policies and their implementation as illustrations of the trend under review; it does not purport to cover the entire field, nor to analyze all aspects of each policy. Nevertheless, several tentative conclusions seem warranted...
While the Crimson's chances of capturing the Ivy League crown seem bleak, the stickwomen are still very much in the race for the Boston Four title with a 1-1 record...
...officer, tempted by a she-lag, consults a chaplain on the validity of marriage vows made in another hemisphere. Perhaps the greatest irony is the novel's skimpiness. The cast of characters is rollicking, and the plots are properly tangled. But little is fleshed out, and the actors onstage seem less artificial than the occurrences that take place outside the makeshift theater. In Keneally's retelling, the play within the play's the thing...
...Silkworms were apparently launched from the Fao peninsula, a spit of Iraqi land north of Kuwait that is now occupied by Iran. An American air strike against the sites would seem the most logical countermeasure. But the nearest U.S. fighter-bombers are on the aircraft carrier Ranger, cruising in the Arabian Sea 1,200 miles from Fao. The jets would have to refuel in midair, since the gulf Arab states, including Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, are skittish about letting them land on their territory for fear of Iranian reprisal. And because the Silkworms are truck-mounted and mobile, there...
...companion pointed out, they demonstrate the paranoid, skewed perspectives of their inhabitants, Jake and Beth. The houses are built on a superhuman scale, with the doorways, windows, walls, and even the floors at bizarre angles to each other. The houses are placed far enough from each other that they seem hundreds of miles apart--which, as the script suggests, they are--yet they are close enough for Jake, imagining he sees Beth, to actually look over to her house...