Word: uncertainity
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...Resnais's final message--insofar as it emerges from his frequently brilliant, sometimes uncertain juxtaposition of fragments of dialogue and imagery--is more complex. Gielgud is not merely a victim; as an artist, he does possess some measure of hegemony over his characters. "Nothing is written," he announces ominously to his dinner guests. "We all believe that, don't we?" The title of the film is, in one sense, straightforwardly symbolic: as creators, Gielgud and Resnais share a god-like power to manipulate others, a power contrasting with the usual human helplessness in the face of life's confusions...
...equatorial plane and cannot be seen by terrestrial telescopes-lie in a 7,000-km.-wide (4,400-mile) belt. Four of the flattened rings are about 10 km. (6 miles) across, while the outermost one is 100 km. (60 miles) wide. What the rings consist of is uncertain. Says Elliot: "One theory about Saturn's rings is that they are made out of snowballs, so one good guess about Uranus' rings would be that they are also some type...
...Radcliffe, coach Pappy Hunt says that improvement is inevitable, but uncertain. "The competition in women's track is the unknown factor," he said. "We know that the state schools are the powerhouses in this sport, but we haven't been around long enough to predict where the real challenge will come from...
...body language of women in her audiences. "I see these very stiff, inhibited women who move and act so much like my character Mrs. Beasley, and I think it's criminal. This is what the culture has done to a lot of women-made them so uptight, so uncertain, so thwarted. It's a matter of power and powerlessness...
...while Nasser lived, Nasserism meant most directly the leadership of Nasser. As an ideology, it remained incoherent, as a movement, unorganized." The survival of such groups beyond the lifetime of their founders is, of course, a central question. However, what Nasserism means for Arab political development now is uncertain, for the post-Nasser movement is in flux...