Word: veils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nevertheless, the veil of secrecy was quickly and predictably pierced. Two days after the Pentagon's strictures against speculation, the Washington Post reported that Mission 51-C will launch a military-intelligence satellite called a SIGINT (for "signal intelligence"), which can intercept electronic signals. With the information now in the public domain, A.P. promptly ran with its similar story and NBC aired a watered-down version...
...bombs have faded into a black drizzle of radioactive fallout. Yet Armageddon is not complete: for miles above the earth, sunlight is blotted out by plumes of smoke from the vast conflagrations in which the major cities of the Northern Hemisphere have been consumed. This thick veil of soot and dust slowly circulates through various layers of the atmosphere, blanketing entire continents, creating a world of frigid darkness. As ground temperatures plummet by as much as 40° F and the sun is obscured, crops in Iowa, Nebraska and the Ukraine in the Soviet Union perish...
...fine line separating art from reality, the success of the show depends upon the actors' ability to sustain appropriate distance from the audience and from the humor of their lines. The moment an actor shows he is conscious of the absurdity of what he's saying, the delicate veil shatters and the play falls flat. With only a few setbacks, the Dunster House production of "The Importance of Being Ernest" presents a delightfully self-contained and poker-faced version of Wilde's drawing room satire...
Mouis' first entrance as Myrta consists simply of a diagonal of tiny steps on pointe. Shrouded in a white veil, she gently skims the floor, an ethereal, cold-blooded creature. From that moment Mouis begins her reign of terror against all unwitting men. In contrast to Bauer's interpretation of the willi as a fragile being, Mouis infuses her role with a startling vitality that surprisingly is not misplaced. Mouis' exhibition of strength and her direct attack of the steps lends credibility to Myrta's forceful and unforgiving character; her interpretation makes the Queen mature not naive...
...support slip away to other center-right politicians, first to Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac and lately to Raymond Barre, each of whom had served as Giscard's Premier. The former President has not scored well in recent opinion polls, trailing both Barre and Chirac as well as Simone Veil, a former Giscard Cabinet Minister and now a French member of the European Parliament. Last week's victory was important for Giscard, according to Political Writer Jean-Marie Benoist, because "it restored his confidence." Giscard campaigned in a downhome, American style, calling the charge that...