Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cross does not do this, exactly, but it does have a comic sense of what a compulsive monologue is really like. And when actors as lively as these three push these monologues into gleeful expressions of extreme emotion, a graceful slapstick abandon keeps the audience laughing beyond the applause. Each actor found a tone that could inject a shot of the ludicrous into any situtation. Things build until the mere sight of one of them lying immobile on the floor is unbearably funny-- it's that feeling of knowing that whatever comes next will be hilarious, whatever...
...days ticked by, the drama drew an ever larger American audience under its spell. By midweek, after Justice Department officials issued an ultimatum to the Indians to abandon the trading post at Wounded Knee by 6 p.m. on Thursday, the suspense grew. In the rolling hills surrounding the Indian enclave, U.S. Army armored personnel carriers rumbled in preparation for an assault. At the roadblocks and in command posts, several of the FBI agents and marshals-there were 300 in all-restlessly broke down their M-16 rifles and adjusted the straps on their gas masks. At one point...
...nearly demolished it. Her friends call her style "brutal." She stays in her patented crouch through her entire run. More prudent racers straighten up from time to time-at the cost of a fraction of a second-as emergencies dictate. Proell disdains such caution and her total abandon has already won her two World Cups. She is assured of a third before the spring thaw. This season she won all eight women's downhill races, becoming the world's first skier-male or female-to score a sweep in one of the three Alpine events.* In late December...
...Guaranteed Income is interspersed with terse commentary such as: "Men who counsel caution in a president do him no disservice, but they do not add much to his day. At the very top of government there ought to be some occasional moment of high spirts, of brave abandon." This may be true, but when...
...abandon the arms of the flowers of shrapnel and of the bloody marches of the war in Angola...