Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Disappointing Leader. Although there were a few grumbles from Labor's dovish coalition ally, the leftist Mapam group, the virtually unanimous vote for Peres seemed to unite the splintered Labor Party. Voters accepted Rabin's abdication with mixed feelings. He had been an uncertain and disappointing leader. But he was also the first sabra (native-born Israeli) to become Premier; the abrupt downfall of one of the "sons of the founders" had tragic communal overtones...
Meanwhile, Rabin last week was characteristically uncertain about his future plans. Rather than seek a trial that might demean the office of Premier, he readily paid a token $ 1,600 fine for having been the co-signer of his wife's illicit bank account. His wife Leah, however, was formally indicted; if found guilty, she could be fined up to $63,000 and sentenced to three years in prison. Although he quit as Labor candidate for Israel's top job, Rabin could not resign office immediately; as head of a caretaker government, he was bound...
...Resnais's final message--insofar as it emerges from his frequently brilliant, sometimes uncertain juxtaposition of fragments of dialogue and imagery--is more complex. Gielgud is not merely a victim; as an artist, he does possess some measure of hegemony over his characters. "Nothing is written," he announces ominously to his dinner guests. "We all believe that, don't we?" The title of the film is, in one sense, straightforwardly symbolic: as creators, Gielgud and Resnais share a god-like power to manipulate others, a power contrasting with the usual human helplessness in the face of life's confusions...
...equatorial plane and cannot be seen by terrestrial telescopes-lie in a 7,000-km.-wide (4,400-mile) belt. Four of the flattened rings are about 10 km. (6 miles) across, while the outermost one is 100 km. (60 miles) wide. What the rings consist of is uncertain. Says Elliot: "One theory about Saturn's rings is that they are made out of snowballs, so one good guess about Uranus' rings would be that they are also some type...
...Radcliffe, coach Pappy Hunt says that improvement is inevitable, but uncertain. "The competition in women's track is the unknown factor," he said. "We know that the state schools are the powerhouses in this sport, but we haven't been around long enough to predict where the real challenge will come from...