Word: suggestibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This quandary has led some astronomers to suggest that the quasars' red shifts are caused by something other than their great distance. Perhaps the light is simply "tired" after its long journey and is arriving at a lower frequency. Or it might be "stretched" toward the red by the strong gravitational field of the quasar. Another possibility: maybe quasars have been exploded out of nearby galaxies at great velocities. Any of these explanations could leave the quasars near enough to the earth to account for their observed brightness, and at the same time give them their enormous red shifts...
This, Bertolucci seems to suggest, is the reason the class struggle remains unresolved: personal ties obscure class warfare, ideology notwithstanding; it is hard to kill people one has always known. As young men, De Niro and Depardieu fought each other to prove their courage; as old men, they will fight, but the struggle has become oddly depersonalized, the inevitable outcome of the existence of a class system...
...first glance, Pharaon's soft features, barely disguised by a mustache and a tiny Vandyke, suggest that he is something of a sybarite. He travels by private jet, owns a chateau in France and once, rumor has it, dispatched a ship to Italy to pick up a pair of porcelain vases. Moreover, his tendency to leave many major decisions to others, combined with a rather offhand manner when discussing business and money, can sometimes leave the impression that he is a self-indulgent hobbyist rather than a hardened executive...
Exaggeration? Hyperbole? Lése-majesté? Not really, for these newer creations are merely variations, updated for life in the '70s, of the kind of durable, reliable characters an older generation of stars created. They are people who suggest simply by their changeless presences that there may be traditions and behavioral conventions that one can rely on in a pinch...
...title track on this newest album tells about the hidden side of Billy Joel. As the lyrics suggest...