Word: fabrication
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...shared by developed nations around the world. That became clear to Correspondent Malkin on a recent visit to Europe to renew friendships made during a seven-year stint covering the economic scene abroad. At one point, a British official told him that unless inflation was curbed, "the whole fabric of society as we know it could come apart." Apocalyptic, perhaps, but the climate of concern led the editors to undertake a thorough study of inflation as a worldwide threat to affluent nations...
Toland's account of the internal politics and external maneuverings of prewar Japan is intricate and intriguing, though his discussion of the underlying cultural and social fabric seems sketchy and abrupt. His narrative of military action during the war covers familiar ground. But his talks with Japanese survivors produced chilling combat vignettes as seen from the other side...
...Bridget Riley has had more than her share of misunderstanding. Few painters have been so ruthlessly plagiarized by commerce. As soon as her tightly organized, black-and-white abstractions began to wrench and prick the eyes of an international public in the mid-'60s, a horde of fabric designers and window dressers moved in. Riley, along with other painters like Vasarely and Soto, became synonymous with Op art; and Op itself became, in the hands of its exploiters, a chic gimmick that could market anything from underwear to wallpaper. By the summer of 1965, it seemed that every boutique...
...campaign in which the Administration had been trying to identify the Democratic party with permissiveness, crime and anarchy, Nixon now had the incident he needed to sew the whole fabric together. But at what price...
Through confusing academic discourse Rohmer leaves you with a murky residue, what Godard has called "a fabric of contradictions" between consciousness and action. Like See You At Mao, Ma Nuit Chez Mand is about "finding the right line" through the chaos, be it political or moral. Both films, however, resist solutions as well. How complete a human clarity is possible remains always questionable. With all his worrying about how to live, about his personal beliefs and his clear conscience, Jean-Louis fails to make an important human perception about the connection between Maud and Francoise, which his scientific outlook...