Word: webs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...racing along from Daytona to Nashville in the buffeting wakes of trucks and trailers, surrounded by the highway signposts, the concrete dividers and huge green directional signs, we could only imagine the blood-soaked land we were passing through. Still, certain places with history caught us in their web so that we experienced more than our seatbelted cocoon. Just beyond Chattanooga was the battlefield of Chickamagua, where my great-great-grandfather was killed in 1863, leading his unit of a Wisconsin Norwegian regiment...
...stage is set for a traditional web of romantic and erotic involvements that was spun out as long ago as Laclos's Les Liaisons Dangeureuses and as recently as Bob and Carol & Ted and Alice. But Beatty has added a new twist: by making a hairdresser his central character, he has come up with a man whose vigor is representative of the virtues of the times. While in romance of the past, the gallant suitor parried with a deft sword or shot a pistol with deadly accuracy, George tucks his electric hairdryer into his belt as he jumps...
Alceste (Alec McCowen) is not a misanthrope in the sense that he hates mankind. He hates the web of social hypocrisy in which men and women entangle themselves. He hates everything that in Eliot's words is "as false as a smile and the shake of a hand." His insistence on absolute candor is blind, humorless and therefore funny. He is a moral prig who thinks of himself as the only honest man alive, and he wants the world to recognize it. He tells the truth till it hurts-others. Still, he raises an important question of principle. When...
...scared, but by God I'm doing it," says Cher. If her new show really has "legs," as no less an expert than Sonny Bono thinks it has, if she and he do not strangle in a web of suits and countersuits as they attempt to dissolve their business relationship, then we may be witnessing not just a lively challenge to The Wonderful World of Disney, but the emergence of A Wonderful World of Cher...
...basic knowledge that public leaders need to carry out their responsibilities is very much a seamless web. For simplicity's sake, however, it is possible to distinguish among three major forms of knowledge: a familiarity with the more sophisticated analytic methods that are increasingly used in the planning and evaluation of public programs; a knowledge of methods of organization and management together with an understanding of the political processes that influence government action; and a sensitivity to the problems of ethics and competing values that inhere in all forms of public activity...