Word: unclearly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...take in and suckle at this great academic breast." Toward that end, Oney plans to attend classes ranging from art and music to psychology and economics. Whether this will leave him time to learn "to write news stories that read like short stories" remains unclear, but Oney is confident. You may see his novel sooner than you think...
...passage, Fish's reflections after he has described the various "zones" that make up Harvard Square: "I pause hard at the corner then, considering whether to cross over or turn back, aware already even here in the borderland between the two zones of a taint in the air of unclear appetite, of relentless and unfocused inclination to consumption...
...teams during the Prime Minister's visit: What to do about the competing military forces entrenched in various sections of war-shattered Lebanon? TIME has learned that a plan for resolving the Lebanese crisis has been a subject of debate among high officials in Israel. Its authorship is unclear-for quite plausible reasons. So deep are the animosities involved that the Israelis might reject out of hand any proposal made by the Palestine Liberation Organization or its Syrian allies; the Palestinians and Syrians will have no truck with anything that originates in Jerusalem. Israeli sources claimed that the plan...
...self-management resolution was being passed, workers at the huge Katowice steelworks in the south voted that the state-appointed plant manager should be sacked and "carted off in a wheelbarrow" for suppressing publication of the local Solidarity newsletter. The government contemptuously refused to comply, and it was unclear what actions the workers might take to enforce the vote...
...face of such ambiguities presents the central theme of the movie. Lumet could have used the disintegration of that bond as an opening for examining the causes of Ciello's behavior. Danny Ciello somehow couldn't fit in. He loved the camaraderie, but something--just what is maddeningly unclear--made him rebel at his fellow detectives scorn for the system. At least partially driven by self-preservation and self-aggrandizement, Ciello is not noble, just understandable. He risks his job and his life to turn on his fellow officers, a move that Treat Williams sensitively portrays as impulsive, with Ciello...