Word: texts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appearances, the peace treaty, every word of which seemed to have been carved on stubborn stone tablets, was complete. The eighth draft of the text, in fact, was put before the Israeli Cabinet for the second time last week and was approved after surprisingly little debate; after hearing some of Washington's latest suggestions for a settlement, which were closely aligned with Sadat...
...then, the delay? It was Anwar Sadat, with U.S. backing, who balked this time. The text did not include a timetable for concluding negotiations for Palestinian autonomy in the Gaza Strip and on the West Bank, and it was this timetable that lay at the heart of Sadat's proposals for "linkage" between a treaty and the pursuit of a wider peace in the Middle East. Nor did the document take into account Sadat's new suggestion that in devising the plan for Palestinian autonomy, the negotiators should concentrate first on Gaza, then turn later to the question...
...Director Robert Mulligan (Bloodbrothers) has changed virtually nothing. On Broadway, the curtain came down after each scene; in the so-called cinematic version, Same Time, Next Year is pockmarked by photomontages that allegedly set up the story's different periods. Yet Mulligan's faithfulness to the text only reveals the flaws in Same Time, Next Year...
Glass's five hour opera "Einstein on the Beach," indicates his solution to that problem. The basic text of the opera is a sequence of numbers and the names of the notes. "That way, the structure and content of the piece are identical," Glass said...
...President is hardly a natural orator, but he made a good try. Through the typewriter of Chief Speechwriter James Fallows, Carter's text had undergone seven drafts. Checking a tendency toward overstatement, Carter deliberately adopted a cautious, realistic, even humble, attitude toward his struggle with inflation. "I do not have all the answers," he admitted. "Nobody does." He conceded frankly: "We have tried to control it, but we have not been successful." His new policy, he said, "is almost certain not to succeed if success means quick or dramatic changes. A long-term disease requires long-term treatment...