Word: upshot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...upshot, says Llinas: "We can say that being awake or being conscious is nothing but a dreamlike state." It is a state, Llinas concedes, that corresponds tightly to external reality. But it has no objective reality; as with a rainbow, you can perceive it but never actually touch or measure...
MacGregor, like the ambitious Scotsman he is, gets the ball rolling when he determines to borrow one thousand pounds from the Marquis of Montrose (John Hurt). The wheres and whyfores are slightly complicated (manifestly humanitarian, of course), but the upshot of the deal is that word of the thousand pounds reaches the ears of the money-hungry English fop, Archibald Cunningham. In between twirling his lace cuffs and showing off his swordsmanship, Cunningham contrives to commit cool murder and expert theft, and the plot is off and running...
Self-described as a multi-media piece, "The Remnant" disturbs the senses long after the finale. That characters do not take a bow, renders the performance all the more uncanny. The pace is quick and illusion and reality are conflated. The upshot is a schizophrenic journey seen from a mad person's point of view...
...system, designed to allow easy check-ins as late as 20 minutes before departure, TIME Denver correspondent Richard Woodbury says the small portion that now works is "Disneyesque, sexy and fast." Unfortunately, he says, "it's only serving one part of one airline -- United -- and only departing passengers." The upshot: travelers may land promptly, but then wait hours for their bags...
...There have been an endless round of meetingswith administrators. The upshot is that there hasbeen almost no movement," Liazos said...