Word: suggestibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...once again entrusted both roles to Maria Tucci, since the two characters are on stage together only in the final scene. Kahn gets around this problem by cutting Perdita's half dozen lines and using a stand-in facing away from the audience. I suppose it's ungallant to suggest that Miss Tucci can no longer really pass for a teenager, but she makes an appealing attempt. As Queen Hermione, she can speak eloquently when required to, and stand immobile for several minutes without blinking an eye when called upon to be a statue. Eight-year-old John Christian Browning...
Although Hays tried to suggest that he would regain his powers after he is "vindicated," there was no doubt that the tyrannical Ohioan's reign on Capitol Hill had ended−permanently...
...currencies rising in value, and the Italys and Britains of the world, with their high inflation, weak economies, and depreciating currencies that worsen inflation by making imports more costly. In fact, the most recent forecasts by the staff of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris suggest that such a division may be coming. The Administration would like to head it off by encouraging the nations with more serious inflation problems to adopt the policies necessary to slow down soaring prices...
...excessive. The shrill use of "joy" and "fun" and "pleasure" in the titles and texts comes to sound as suspect as "honest" in the name of a used-car dealer. Jock Lit authors are so deadly serious they kill the fun. Yet they are not serious enough. To suggest, as Novak does, that sports may lie at the heart of America's spiritual regeneration is to overrate sports−or underrate religion−or both...
...authors examine Pike's many efforts to talk with the dead (notably Jim Jr.) in seances, and suggest that the mediums he used probably learned in advance almost all of the obscure information that so impressed the bishop. They also note that since he and Diane agreed on the survival of the soul, they cut the words "till death do us part" from their marriage ceremony...