Word: vain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...memoir The Other Side of the Story, to be published by William Morrow in April, Powell does what he accuses journalists of doing: he makes no effort to be unbiased. He writes, "White House correspondents will look in vain for the scoops. What they will find are the stories that seem to me to be wrong and unfair...
...more of an elf than a king. But this is not unintentional, for Kozintsev's Lear emphasizes correctly the humanness of its central character. Lear's fall is not of the same grandeur as Oedipus in Sophocles's tragedy, Oedipus-Tyrannus. Rather it is the fall of a vain, petty man whose self-centered need for flattery destroys his only loving daughter and ruins his sacred kingdom...
Divided into two parts, the film first focuses on the eccentricity of the characters who have come to pay tribute to the fallen star. Vain opera celebrities upstage one another while rehearsing for Tatua's memorial concert, a foppish conductor reveals his obsession with the dead soprano while an English lord is cuckolded by a member of the ship's crew. The film moves without direction, as scene after scene of extravagant dinners and meaningless tete-a-tetes follow one another and avoids any serious character or plot development. Instead it concentrates upon painting a picture of the rich...
...most dyspeptically partisan Democrat could hardly have put the warning more bluntly. But Congress and the nation searched in vain through the budget message for fiscal 1985 for any reply to the obvious next question: What does the President propose to do to ward off the dangers he so starkly portrayed? Not until his separate economic message the next day did Reagan give an explicit answer: "We must wait until after this year's election" to make any sweeping moves...
...gain control over the region and perhaps enable what is left of the Palestine Liberation Organization to return. And that, in turn, would constitute an admission that the war in Lebanon, in which more than 560 Israeli soldiers were killed and 3,000 wounded, had been fought in vain. When the Israelis first entered southern Lebanon in June 1982, they were generally welcomed because they were driving out the P.L.O., which had alienated many Lebanese by creating a state within a state in the area. By the standards of occupying forces in the Middle East, the Israelis have behaved reasonably...