Word: unraveled
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When the curtain first rises, you are plunged into a thickly tangled plot that may take you the whole first act to unravel. Basically, the main character is not really the medieval German emperor, (sigh of relief from those who hate historical plays), but a twentieth-century Italian aristocrat who suffered a fall from his horse during a mock-medieval pageant and remained convinced that he was actually Henry IV. In order to humor him, his relatives have totally recreated Henry's courts, with servants in medieval dress, oil lamps instead of electric lights, visiting abbots and monks--the works...
...Kissinger is satiated by the attempts to unravel the complexities of the Viet Nam War, which has demanded so much of his energy and his psyche for four years. If peace develops, he may go to Hanoi in the spring to discuss postwar reconstruction...
...FLAHERTY had managed Mailer's mayoralty race as well as he manager words, New York might have reeled right into the Hudson Bay. But Mailer's ex-campaign manager has compensated with a novel of comparable effect Guaranteed to unravel every thread in the critical web to unravel some mind and to get on your nerves. Fogarty & Co. a book to contend with Blustering, swaggering, clever, and thoroughly out of taste, it is steeped to the point of pickled in 1972 However much you may despise it you can't help but like it. And like the year...
...what the viewer already knows. Looking and acting more like a befuddled sheep dog than a crafty bloodhound, Columbo (Peter Falk) sets to work. The viewer works with him, wincing, sighing and occasionally sitting up in excitement as Columbo stumbles step by step to the tiny flaw that will unravel the murder's protective coat...
...natural imagery, and the religious and mythical allusions, fitting them into the author's philosophical framework. However, Cavell's own writing style also begs for a "higher reading," He leaves many ideas and even sentences unfinished and his disjointed logic often requires several readings of a given passage to unravel, Cavell tries to discover how to read Walden "in the high areas." The experience should ideally recreate the life in Walden, a difficult task which requires losing oneself through reading in order to rebuild oneself...