Word: unfold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quoting 80-20 odds against an announcement before the U.S. election. Kissinger has told friends with apparent sincerity that Nixon has never pressured him to speed up or slow down the pace of negotiations because of the election. In conversations, he has suggested that he personally expects events to unfold gradually...
...Dern has been playing featured parts in everything from The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant to The Cowboys, and this kind of apprenticeship has taught him how to turn a scene with a shrug or an inflection. Now, with the rich role of Jason, Dern's talents can really unfold. He has an almost combustible uncertainty that shades Jason's assurance with doubt and intimations of defeat. Dern also moves Jason beyond the more obvious pyrotechnics to which the script has confined him, and the scene in which he embraces an embarrassed Nicholson is one of the best...
...time and place are not 16th century Messina, but turn-of-the-century America. In both periods, wars can be won with small loss and loves pursued with grand stratagems. Courtship and cozening can unfold while the players dance the maxixe. Antoon and Choreographer Donald Saddler abscond with reality so neatly that one is willing to believe in the characters...
...People need to unfold sexually," Sarrel believes, and there is no way to speed the process. What is right may vary with a student's stage of emotional development. "A freshman may need to express rebellion and independence from his family and may use sex to do it." That is acceptable, Sarrel believes, as long as the student understands his motives: "We don't worry too much about the freshman who's going to bed with someone. We worry about the freshman who's just going to bed and thinks it's love." For an older student, intercourse...
Every President is essentially a mystery until his presidency begins to unfold. Often he is judged at the end of his term of office to be a very different man than at the beginning: consider Lyndon Johnson. But so hazardous is the world today, so annihilating the power in the hands of the President, that his character deserves closer scrutiny than it usually gets in the Darwinian American election process...