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...STRUGGLE in Vietnam settles into a tenuous peace, we recognize increasingly that it has touched us all profoundly. The first generation of the radicals of the 1960s links its conversion to the early civil rights movement and the Cuban Revolution, but for those of us who abandoned the old ways in the latter part of the decade, Vietnam has been the crucial experience...
...cruel paradox, a painter who was the master of visual sensation-able to pack more concrete feeling of weight, rotation, sharpness, elasticity and vibration, color or smell into a shape than any other man of his time-found himself, at the end, painting with only the most tenuous relationship to the world...
Department Faculty members, aware of Mao's tenuous position, tried early this year to find a permanent position for her here. Wagner said that they were unable...
THIS STORY HAS more to it than just my unscrewing the last bolt out of some Pontiac dealer's engine. My creator has silly ideas, which, despite their sometimes tenuous connection to the story, he never fails to explore. Many of his ideas are social criticism derived from the absurdities and idiosyncrasies of American experience. In the past, there were funny. I was funny. But when I'm not bored by Breakfast of Champions, it makes me want to cry. I'm just not funny anymore...
Maggie Smith, a superb actress, is a peerless comedienne. With her own fractured regality, a tenuous dignity that seems to invite comic disaster, she can make haggard bits like tripping or falling out of bed seem instantly fresh and funny...