Word: webbed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stripped of the usual bureaucratic hyperbole, the justification of the Chevrolet summit was the simple fact that the President of the U.S. and the head of the Soviet Union should meet and talk as colleagues in power. Such meetings, said a Nixon aide, build up a "web of interrelationships" between the two superpowers. Another high U.S. official added, with a laconic reference to Watergate: "It was scheduled last year. We had no reason to cancel. If we did not go to the summit, we would be saying that we are not a functioning government...
There are further complications, but the web of plots and interrelationships ultimately amounts to a struggle of poor, generally powerless men and women to preserve what passes for dignity and self-respect--usually at each other's expense. Their problem, as Brecht shows it, is that they have no understanding of dignity beyond the sham that passes for gentility among a capitalist society's ruling class. They have a passion for outward virtue combined with an infinite corruptibility. They parody bourgeois family life, but are loyal only so far as self-protection permits. Peachum is forever misquoting scripture to defend...
...keeping the choices open by profuse addition. Now this process of working from drawings into paintings was not much to the fore in abstract expressionism. For Pollock to do a preliminary sketch for one of his drip paintings would have subverted their aesthetic intent, since the web of form depended on the fluid, spontaneous and unrepeatable movements of the hand. De Kooning-and to some extent Robert Motherwell -are the only surviving abstract expressionist painters in whose work the preliminary study does play a big role. In both cases, drawing is linked to collage and the shifting and superimposition...
...moments of the play slip by with long pauses that are more tedious than suspenseful and the intensity of the actors' emotional outbursts is rarely in keeping with the dramatic mood that has been created on the stage. Working together, the five actors fail to create that subtly woven web of tension and humor, love and hate, that should have riveted our attention to the action. The play lags because the interaction between characters seems so devoid of the intensity of feeling that Miller wanted to create...
...White's Charlotte informed Wilbur the Pig. "Nearly all spiders are rather nice-looking. I may not be as flashy as some, but I'll do." And in the clutch, when Mr. Arable was going to cut Wilbur up for pork, she did. "Some pig," she wrote in her web. "Terrific. Radiant. Humble." Mr. Arable let him off with a blue ribbon...