Word: abandons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many crashes are the product of terrorism anyway? I have been in airplanes where the overhead bins open with gay abandon at the slightest bump, where the reading lights flicker with a hypnotic frequency and where the food, insofar as it can be detected on the plate, is seldom warmed above the temperature of the ambient stratosphere. One can only pray in these circumstances that the subcontractor in charge of the cabin was not also entrusted with engine maintenance. As for the crucial issue of when to go up and when to go down: we read of air-traffic-control...
...more. For as director Newell (himself making a quantum leap from the frothy Four Weddings and a Funeral) observes, Brasco "is a hard man, a brutal man," operating in a narrative that offers him no convenient escape clauses, no soft or fanciful evasions of fate. Forced in anguish to abandon his real family for his Mob family--his wife, whose patience with his absences finally runs out, is very well played by Anne Heche--Brasco must ultimately betray his only real friend in the criminal clan, Al Pacino's very weary, very unsuccessful and finally very touching soldier...
...shall begin my case history in a rather idyllic setting--Harvard Yard at midnight, covered in freshly fallen snow. A few weeks ago when winter was still winter, some friends and I decided to recapture the abandon of childhood by frolicking in the winter wonderland. Unfortunately, we made a fatal error. Our recreation included some playful snowball tossing. Across the Yard some fellow students caught notice of this apparently provocative activity. The observers descended from their dorms to take up the contest...
Holding signs with slogans such as "We Are a Community and We Do Not Abandon People," members of the group picketed in front of City Hall before the meeting...
Should we abandon our sanctions against rogue terrorist-sponsoring nations such as Iran, Libya, and Syria in the Wilsonian hope that we will make them "safe for democracy?" (The U.S. is, incidentally, conspicuously alone in the crusade against these nations as well.) Were we not right to have imposed economic sanctions against South Africa during Apartheid in spite of the negative economic effects of the sanctions for both the United States and South Africa...