Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Nevertheless, the-book-as-novel is convincing. The story moves through the grim and grotesque too quickly to think much about credibility. The narrative is powerfully direct, painfully simple, and only rarely heavy-handed. With steely-eyed, unflinching confidence Rawls sets it out with little moralizing and less existentialism--and it burns. There is a macabre concentration on the horror, the strange, spell-binding discovery of some of the inhumane dark places of our humanity. Cold Storage is a grim, intensely-created thing, focusing with iron nerves on subjects we don't want to know about...
...cream colored panel truck, the same one used in last Sunday's first round of direct talks, yesterday arrived shortly before 9 a.m. and was parked with its back door facing the embassy. The rear doors were removed to allow guerrillas inside the embassy to observe the talks...
Last year, some students felt the guide tried to direct freshman away from the House the authors hoped to live in. The only House that Mavrolean and Itekowitz criticized harshly last year was Adams House, Franklin said. Mavrolean and Itekowitz are now residents of Adams House. Elwes said that he and his roommate, Greg Scherick '83, also an editor of the guide, have not decided on housing...
...country under the terms of a Soviet-Afghan treaty. Said the Soviet President: "The U.S. loudly demands the withdrawal of Soviet troops but in fact is doing everything to put off this possibility; it is continuing to build up its interference in the affairs of Afghanistan." In a direct attack on Jimmy Carter, he declared: "The anti-Soviet hysteria was needed for somebody riding the crest of this wave to win the presidential election in the autumn." But then, in what may have been a subtle deviation from the Kremlin's hitherto intransigent line, Brezhnev made the point that...
...energy crisis and sky-high prices, the prevalent habit of mindless waste may be in the early stages of a reversal. At least some Americans are beginning to pay attention to small savings that were regarded as inconsequential only yesterday. A new scrimpy spirit is most noticeable in direct efforts to conserve gas and other fuels, but it is also emerging in the other routine logistics of daily living...