THAT image of the weak woman behind the facade of professional strength is precisely the retro idea behind "Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire?" Much has been made of the fact that Ms. Conger is an emergency room nurse, but here is the way her career was treated on the show.
In these films, Cotten established a rather complex screen persona that of a weak man with a strong facade: ingratiating but cynical, decent but ineffectual, charming but largely impotent.
Europe, embroiled in a severe financial crisis, prefers televised indignation — a facade of political unity and weak popular protests.
The makeshift jugaads – low-cost vehicles with diesel engines, weak brakes and little (if any) protective facade – are especially treacherous.
But hey, maybe Han's falling body was intercepted by an X-Wing, is now being resurrected with a robotic belly a la Luke's hand and the smuggler will return to help find yet another woefully-overlooked weak spot in a death sphere's facade?! Read more: Why a major scene was cut from The Force Awakens.
Through this study a possible weak plane, constituted by the support of the brickwork facade on concrete slabs, was found, which is not contemplated in the existing standards.
Perhaps this sounds too "New Agey" but we have time and time again seen that If tyrants fear any thing, it is those who can stand firm and patient while seeing through the tyrants' facade of strength and to the reality of the weak fearful place from which they act.
"We are not necessarily weaker," said Marina Ottaway, director of Middle Eastern affairs for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an author of "Beyond the Facade: Political Reform in the Arab World".
He also hired the British starchitect David Adjaye to build an avant-garde seven-story black concrete town house (quietly concealed, Lex Luthor-style, behind the unassuming late-19th-century facade of an Upper East Side carriage house) and stocked it with enough treasures to make an auction-house rep weak in the knees.
