Word: reconstructing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...delivered the most impassioned speeches of his lengthy career in an effort to undermine the PQ's initiative. He said he would under no circumstances--Yes victory or otherwise--negotiate sovereignty-association. Himself a bilingual Montrealer and the only politician in Quebec with greater than Levesque, Trudeau pledged to reconstruct Canada's archaic, watery constitution. For his part, Levesque appealed to solidarity, and fostered engroupements, community-level organizations designed unity. The touchy and emotional issue split families right down the middle. As one middle-aged No voter said, "I don't discuss the situation over dinner with my children anymore...
This is not a film for the masses, Syberberg seems to say in every frame. The authoritarian director guides the work through monologues, dialogues with Hitler, the confessions of Himmler and Hitler, all of it set in the same small studio. The props reconstruct a dream world--often surrealistic--and the actors walk amidst the mannequins in front of slide projections of Hitler's Obersalzburg mansion, his party rallies, old photographs. There are four parts, 22 chapters, and significant hunks of the work deliberately bore, like a condescending challenge, 'Are you good enough to keep up with...
WHEN THE U.S. State Department claimed last week that 50 nations will boycott the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow, it may have ushered in the end of the Olympic movement. For while an alternative Olympics would preserve the ideals which the Games seem to represent, they could never reconstruct the spirit of international unity that stands as the real premise of the Games...
...contract between the MBTA and Perini requires that Perini eventually reconstruct the news building, a registered historic land-mark, in its original form, a spokesman at the MBTA project office said yesterday...
...made it difficult to imagine the place as it actually was, to sense how and why people converged there in ways that would alter the world. In Fin-de-Siecle Vienna, Historian Carl E. Schorske gives the city back to itself. The book's seven related essays carefully reconstruct a Vienna of bricks and beliefs, a real place building toward a surreal destiny...