Word: timeless
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...stitched together from Marxist-Leninist textbook ideology, onto an ancient and feudal land of almost bewitching beauty and vulnerability. The mountainside city of Addis Ababa itself reflects the dichotomy. Its haunting, wild setting amid mist-covered mountains, ancient stone paths and a profusion of roses and bougainvillaea is as timeless and unchanged as its poverty-stricken population, dressed in layers of worn, soiled clothing, sleeping in rag bundles on the sidewalks, and driving small flocks of donkeys and cows through the main streets. The city is still dominated by the immense, pale brick palace long occupied by Selassie, where...
...digressions, Bradley dwells on the sick and aged members of the very veteran Knicks, especially his roommate Dave DeBusschere, who is playing his last year--he pays no attention to rookies. The book begins with a short dream vignette in which the author's past presides over a timeless game with unrecognizable opponents. After feeling the guilt of a poor first three quarters, Bradley enters the game with 45 seconds left, gets a steal, a rebound, an assist, six points, and has two free throws with one second left; the team is down only by one. He misses the first...
...picture emerges from the movie of two different women, differing radically in temperament, locked in a timeless, unchanging struggle with each other. Edith, nearing the end of her days, reviews her life with contentment. "I had my cake, loved it, masticated and chewed it," she tells us. "I had everything I wanted. I had a very, very happy, satisfying life." Her daughter is profoundly embittered, looking upon her time at Grey Gardens as a waste, hating it, but incapable of leaving, and holding her mother responsible for her disappointments...
WHILE MOST AMERICANS in the 1970s have lost the capacity to feel rage, or at least to express it openly with any amount of integrity, Edward Albee has consistently infused his work with an unsparing timeless fury, an articulate anger that refuses to eschew the audience. The free-flowing profanities in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? no longer shock as in the sixties but engage attention and accent the sardonic humor strung across two of the play's three grueling acts...
...consider Prince Bernhard innocent until proved guilty. That generosity of judgment was partly self-interested: the toppling of national idols is always painful, and the Dutch understandably prefer their princes upright. Their open-mindedness was also a gesture of gratitude to the German-born prince, who in cool and timeless service to The Netherlands had transformed his adopted countrymen's initial wariness about his origins into almost universal esteem...