Word: illusionality
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Morning Afters. The story that goes with the pictures is spun out in disarmingly unliterary prose, a kind of sardonic self-portrait of a Matthew Brady in paratrooper's boots. It is held together by an elusive, improbable and unresolved love story involving a pink-haired British girl named...
No candidate for the carriage trade, the Media was built for utility and solid comfort rather than flash. Her ample holds can carry 7,000 tons of freight. Her 250 single-class passengers have enough elbowroom in air-conditioned lounges to permit the illusion that they are traveling first class...
"But neither must we fall into the illusion that the foe alone is responsible for the fears and that we are merely virtuous defenders of a great cause, beset by scoundrels. There must be a dimension of faith in which, whatever our loyalties and however justified our defense of them...
Hedda Hopper is the handsome, headlong gossip whose syndicated column, usually titled "Hollywood," written in prose of an inspired spasticity, daily gives her 22,800,000 readers the illusion that they have been behind the sets, the bushes and deep into some of Hollywood's better bed-&-bathrooms. This...
The Versailles Treaty was unworkable. Many Germans were opposed to Hitler. There was an attempt on his life. So what? It is equally true that the air raids on Rotterdam and Warsaw were not carried out by Adolph Hitler alone, using mirrors to give the illusion of numbers. Not even...