Word: thrall
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact Klein was in the thrall of the Clinton charisma; his Jack is a figure that rockets off the page. In the film Stanton is less grand and less sexy, and Travolta plays it subdued, a tad mopish. His smile looks startled, as if he had just sniffed ammonia. He has the hardest job: while everyone else gets to crack wise, he has to make political platitudes sound like poetry and Stanton's skunkish behavior smell almost sweet. His Stanton is a large man unsure whether he's big enough for a job he would kill...
Domestic politics makes it equally imperative for Clinton to be seen standing up for moral positions. He will court political damage if he doesn't speak forcefully on human rights; still, he can't place the whole relationship in thrall to this issue. Rather than dwelling futilely on token releases, Clinton might shift the emphasis to an ongoing "human-rights dialogue" to open up legal processes and prisoner visits. Realistically, says a top Clinton adviser, "with the Chinese, human rights aren't a matter of negotiation. We have to be aggressive in pursuing them but recognize that they're going...
Thirty years later, movies are samer than ever--more conservative, more in the thrall of spectacle and sensation. And Godard...is he still around? In fact, he made 15 films in the '80s, nine more in the '90s. A man in Mozart says, "There's no such thing as grownups." Godard, who'll be 67 this year, still has the intellectual energy--the need to know and show everything--of a precocious child...
...workings of the mind in general--it's not surprising that scientists have struggled mightily to make sense of the mechanisms of addiction. Why do certain substances have the power to make us feel so good (at least at first)? Why do some people fall so easily into the thrall of alcohol, cocaine, nicotine and other addictive substances, while others can, literally, take them or leave them...
...Kayden Artist in Residence in 1983 at Harvard, performed four tunes with the Band: Jacquet's own "Robbin's Nest," as well as "Body and Soul," "Flyin' Home" and "On the Sunny Side of the Street." This was his eighth visit to Harvard. While Jacquet held the audience in thrall with his simple, warm, lyrical solos, it was the sensitive accompaniment by the entire Monday Jazz Band as well as the solid playing of Jacquet's regular drummer "Cook" Bradnax that made for such a rich musical experience...