Word: unreal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your piece on Britain's justly noted Redgrave sisters [March 17] was excellent, especially for its comments on the modern moviegoer. An increasingly educated and intelligent American public cannot accept the glittering bedroom farces and unreal gods and goddesses that Hollywood is, unfortunately, famous for. Let the American film industry take a cue from the realistic poignance of Julie Christie's Darling or Lynn Redgrave's Georgy Girl...
...basic facts about nuclear weapons is that few people really believe or can imagine that they will ever be used. As a result, any discussion of nuclear plans and possibilities assumes a certain air of unreal horror. And yet, short of a drastic change in the international situation or in human nature, the leaders responsible for a nation's security cannot rule out the possibility of a nuclear war. Hence, one of the most painful and long-deferred decisions facing Washington is whether or not the U.S. should install an anti-missile defense system. The U.S. and Russia...
...would be unreal to take Cambridge students away from their homes for the whole summer," Swanger said. "We do not want to replace their homes with Upward Bound; we want to incorporate Upward Bound into their home lives...
...awareness of irretrievable loss. "A sense of security, of wellbeing, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present." It is of no importance that Russian imperialism underwrote that way of life. Nabokov is concerned only with preserving "the beauty of intangible property, unreal estate"-and he transports the reader with a series of unforgettable images that have nothing to do with ideology or geography...
...answer is that Walton goeth to London, Julie to Hollywood. The result is that they are separated by more than an ocean and a continent. At one point, they corresponded on tape. "Every day, out went the tapes," says Tony. "Julie saying how frightened she was of acting, how unreal the whole thing was. But we got too good at the tapes and a bit too tricky. Every once in a while I'd get one from Julie saying 'It's midnight and I'm just dragging in from rehearsal,' and I could hear...