Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This spring, however, masters seem to be reversing the ban, in the hopes of restricting the parties in a more effective way--by bringing them back into public areas. But this recognition stops short in the development of a uniform policy for restricting them. Consequently, parties at various houses are taking different forms...
...Terry's special attention to the Festival makes this production seem like more than just a bunch of cartoons, it is. Some of the animations are brilliant political commentaries, like Zbignew Rybczynski's Tango, which was awaraded an Oscar in 1982. Others films are intriguing social reflections, like Paul Driessen's Elbowing or the 1981 Academy Award-winning film The Fly. Still others are just simply hillarious, like my favorite animated short, Charade, and the 1988 animation, The Cat Came Back...
...when the Crimson does take the lead, it doesn't seem to have the incentive to protect...
...just seem to get complacent," O'Connell said...
Such a grand beginning inspires confidence that we are in the hands of a master storyteller, and Schama's epic history richly fulfills that promise. This saga of revolt and revenge may at first seem somewhat familiar, for it has long been one of the great narrative legends of modern time, told and retold by Burke, Tocqueville, Carlyle and others. We already know -- don't we? -- about the dim-witted King Louis XVI, about Queen Marie Antoinette's supposedly saying "Let them eat cake," and the ragged mobs cheering as the bloodied guillotine rises and falls in its awful rhythm...