Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Khomeini's purpose in so lavishly welcoming Arafat could have been in part to outflank his leftist opposition in Iran by demonstrating his solidarity with the Palestinians. That view was supported by Chief of Staff Qarani's assurances that Iran would abide by its agreement with the U.S. not to share its arsenal of Amerlean-supplied planes, missiles and other weapons with any other state. Qarani predicted that foreign military advisers, and perhaps some technicians from the U.S., would soon be invited to return to Iran...
...fuel depot in Kampala. Says Kuli: "I cannot say to the day when Amin will go, but it will be within six months. I am perfectly willing to die. I have nothing to live for but to kill Amin." This time, many others appear to share the view that Big Daddy's swaggering days may indeed be numbered...
...best images have more in common with reporting than with fantasy. Would The Human Condition I, one of his half-dozen most famous images-the painting shows an open window with an easel in front of it; the canvas on the easel bears a picture of the view through the window; and this picture exactly overlaps the view, so that the play between image and reality asserts that the real world is merely a construction of mind-be any more jarring if its locale were exotic? Of course not; such paradoxes depend on the context of real life...
...Another view holds science writers themselves responsible for all the doom and gloom: because scientists write only for one another, usually in terms all but incomprehensible to lay people, word of new theories and breakthroughs is sometimes passed on to the public in overly dramatic and exaggerated form. Still, the most deadpan writing cannot disguise the drama of some of science's recent discoveries. The Big Bang theory of the universe, for example, has quite correctly convinced much of the public that the cosmos is unimaginably terrifying and violent. In the light of such findings, even theories that have...
...argued that disaster writing and entertainment are safety valves for hostility toward a complicated culture. Says Conrad: "For one exhilarating and guilt-free moment, the whole teeming supermarket cart of capitalist goodies is sent hurtling down the aisle and crashes through the façade." The films, in her view, also ease the dread of death, since there is comfort in knowing that everyone almost always dies together. Concludes Conrad: "The success of disaster entertainment is rooted deep in the concerns and apprehensions of the American psyche." his pessimistic The Culture of Narcissism, argues that modern civilization is beginning...