Word: sure
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sure that even without the visual proof, he believed...
When several publishing houses reject a manuscript by a Nobel Prize-winner like Saul Bellow, it's a sure sign that something is wrong. But I was optimistic as I began reading his new novella A Theft, convinced that I would discover an overlooked masterpiece. Unfortunately, all those publishing houses were not wrong...
...sure, the film's central symbolic figure, the widowed Mrs. Bender (Edna Dore, whose senile silences speak volumes) has a safe place in that house, superficially unchanged since she raised her children. But she is, in fact, the last holdout on a gentrifying block, and the world beyond it has become utterly incomprehensible to her. Indeed, the movie's most crucial and comic scene occurs when she locks herself out and must apply to her silly- deadly, yup-scale neighbors for help...
...Bernstein writes. "My question offered no escape; there is no Fifth Amendment for eight-year-olds." His father tried to skirt the question, speaking instead about the irrelevance of party membership and the persecution of progressives. "I didn't ask any questions when he finished explaining, and I'm sure he guessed that my silence meant that I knew. It took twenty-five years before I asked him that question again...
...also been inattentive about managing the news and delivering its message to the public, especially when compared with skills of the Reagan Administration or even with the "theme-of- the-day" Bush campaign. "The President has given nobody the overall authority to coordinate people's efforts and make sure things work around here," explains one senior Administration official. "And there's only so much that even a President as active as this one can keep track of. The rest is falling through the cracks...