Word: abound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...father who takes his three children, after years of neglecting them, on a Mediterranean cruise and, en route, learns that his ex-wife has been killed in a car crash. Director Robert Lieberman overlooks no cliche and lets no banality pass him by. For collectors of awkward moments, treasures abound; but the best such moment takes place beneath the Pyramids. Nothing is permanent, Voight tells his children, and some day even these mighty monuments will be mere sand. And, by the way, there's some bad news about Mommy...
...YEARS, local politicians have urged Chicago voters to "vote early and often," Political corruption, especially on election day, has become a tradition in the Windy City. Familiar images abound--the elderly or the infirmed dragged from morning homes to the polling booths, "street people" personally accompanied by volunteers to cast a vote, registration lists mysteriously changing names. The Democratic political machine built by the late Mayor Richard J. Daley survived by these methods, enlarging the patronage army that could guarantee votes from the apparatus itself and from the community at large...
Before the massacre, Sabra and Shatila were hives of cottage industry. The clang of metal against metal still rings from some of the small automobile repair shops, but behind the din there is a kind of lethargy. Women and children abound, but there are few males of working age. Many of the men were killed in the massacre. The male Palestinian fighters who survived left the country in the evacuation following the Beirut siege. Since then, the Lebanese army and security forces have conducted roundups of suspected P.L.O. members, criminals and others believed to be in Lebanon illegally. The roundups...
Gags, puns and impersonations of celebrities from Vivien Leigh to Rodney Dangerfield abound throughout the show, occasionally detracting from the seriousness of the parables when they get out of hand. As Jesus tells his disciples that if a man takes their shirts, they should give him their coats, one character chimes in with. "Give 'em your tired, give 'em your poor," while another is shushed by his friend when he adds, "Give 'em hell." One particularly moving exchange is Christ's response to a character's complaint that she is an only child, "So am I," he says...
Nothing could be more obvious than the evidence supporting Riesman. Scofflaws abound in amazing variety. The graffiti-prone turn public surfaces into visual rubbish. Bicyclists often ride as though two-wheeled vehicles are exempt from all traffic laws. Litterbugs convert their communities into trash dumps. Widespread flurries of ordinances have failed to clear public places of high-decibel portable radios, just as earlier laws failed to wipe out the beer-soaked hooliganism that plagues many parks. Tobacco addicts remain hopelessly blind to signs that say NO SMOKING. Respectably dressed pot smokers no longer bother to duck out of public sight...