Word: edition
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Philip had been unfaithful to her. She always returned to him following her own extramarital affairs, as if their relationship was the base of security that allowed her to deal with the inconstancy of the outside world, a shelter from her own intensity. When she died, he decided to edit her memoirs; and sometimes, Darroch says, Philip would go upstairs "where Ottoline's clothes still hung, her unique scent clinging to them, and he would gently lift the silks and velvets in an attempt to get in touch with her again...
...awkward passages in The Book of Abigail and John. Butterfield, Friedlander and Kline, with a few exceptions--such as when they excuse an outlandish lie Adams makes to his wife as "an exaggeration made under momentary stress"--edit and introduce the 226 letters with good sense, restoring the parts that Charles Francis Adams bowdlerized in the 19th century, and leaving the grammar and spelling of the originals uncorrected...
...crosscuts to Sonny's apartment. He dwells on ethnicity as though it were the last word since Bridget and Bernie, giving us social realism with a fond look at hysterical Italians, hot-blooded Latins, and stupid, good-natured blacks. Presumably in the name of verisimilitude, he refuses to edit out repetitive or slow-moving sequences. A real drama under Lumet's direction might keep us in the theater for days...
...ugly in everything positive, something disappointing in everything successful. A typical reaction to alienating situations is to somehow redefine the situation as not contradictory. The simplest way to do that is to eliminate the upsetting scenes from one's life. We learn to look at life single-mindedly and edit out the bad footage in our vision and perceptions. We learn not to see certain contradictions. For instance, we learn not to see, not to notice the stilted "legs" and mechanical arm of Robin Starling standing next to his prize-winning cow with its perfect loins. We learn...
Sales from the guide should help the HSA's financial status as sales from "Let's Go Europe" are down this year with the decrease in travelling. Motenko said. If OBB decides to have a second annual guide book, the HSA has first priority to edit and publish the book...