Word: tween
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dialogue creates some awkward moments. Conversations must be disassembled like Chinese boxes: " ' "My ex-wife," he said, "said the same thing," ' Locke said." At moments such as these, talk does indeed seem cheap. For all its laconic wit, The Judgment of Deke Hunter still teeters be tween the description of manners and the repetition of mannerisms. The characters are good fun to be around, but they never get more complicated than their last remark...
...polar conflict of the play is be tween love and empire or desire and duty, with Egypt symbolizing one and Rome the other. Director Phillips sets up a telling counterpoint between the brisk, businesslike military scenes and the perfumed enchantment of the amorous interludes...
Since 1927, when the automobile was married to the radio, Americans have demonstrated a commitment to continuous communication for entertainment or for news. And the distinction be tween news and entertainment grows steadily less clear...
...step on that road to destruction, Revel warns, is the popular front. Through it, Communists gain a respite in their struggle with the right when the right is too strong for direct confrontation; they also frustrate the building of a reformist bloc by splitting its potential members be tween one side or the other...
Trying to be more Freudian than Sigmund, Legman plays many varia tions on his single theme: smut springs from unconscious fears and rages and is usually directed by males against females. His illustrations on the war be tween the sexes range from the earliest skirmishes to a cocktail-party confrontation: a beautiful woman propositions a man. "My place or yours?" he asks...