Word: voids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dershowitz, professor of Law, points to Vorenberg's moderate philosophy as critical in his new position of leadership. "American law today is looking for leadership. People like Chief Justice Warren Burger are trying to fill that vacuum in the wrong way. I think Jim Vorenberg will fill the void in a progressive, liberal way," he says...
...thing is that Columbia does not entirely evoke the romance of the future either. The nature of its promise is mixed, since part of its immediate purpose is to sprinkle the void with whirling gizmos, including a couple of spies. Yet the other side of its promise is shimmering. Only astronauts operating from a space shuttle could create the ferris wheel depicted in 2001, could build a celestial city within and against the dark...
...problems that do disturb ordinary French voters. Unemployment has reached a near record 6.3%; the inflation rate is 13.5%. President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing is expected to defeat his most serious opponent, only because his opposition on the left is so divided. Coluche is filling a void. More than 200 Coluche-for-President committees have sprung up across France, and he is confident that he will get the 500 signatures of elected local officials he needs to be placed on the ballot: there are, after all, more than 40,000 such officials to approach...
...Tally, who wrote a somber tribute to the moral courage of polar explorers in Terra Nova, now explores the contagious terrain of venality. He asks, in effect, How do creatures such as David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam"), Jim Jones and Gary Gilmore, men who occupy an appalling moral void, arc to celebrity status save for the vulpine collusion of the goldbugs - agents, publicists, the press, TV and films...
...demands, unassailable in her emotion, inconsolable in her situation. "There's no way I can repay you; there's no use trying. Let's just try to forget everything and start over again," offers the father, desperately. And the daughter assents with her silence, turning her back on a void that will never be filled, looking ahead. There is no neat ending here; no banality heaped upon ugliness, thankfully...