Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIRECT EXPERIENCE seems a more exciting source of images in the poems. When talking in her own voice. Harris tends to adopt interesting word combinations and compound words: "broomhandle-killing/that squirrel, carstunned and lost" she writes in "Manhattan As A Second Language." Asides in poetry are always dangerous, but when Harris writes in the first person she deals successfully with complex, convoluted images without losing the thread of her poetry. In "The Coddling Moth," she successfully creates a complicated, sensual comparison between a man and a moth, follows the moth into an apple grove, and leaps to agricultural science...
Hanna Schygulla as his lover is as enigmatic as ever, replacing her, more familiar vamping with a staunch mother figure. An evidently barren woman who has inexplicably taken Lebanon as her own country, her sole desire is to adopt a native child. Yet she evokes no more sympathy exudes no more warmth than Laschen. In fact, while Laschen becomes increasingly anesthetized by the violence she remains consistently numb...
...plans if his party gains power. We will win the military fight. First we will adopt a revolutionary constitution with articles that will give us the force of law to deal with the state of crisis that we are living in now. Right now we are fighting blindfolded, and with treason in certain government spheres. Once we have good military intelligence and a government that does not give cover to subversives, we can go ahead...
...movement for disarmament, security, and building the foundation for a world community, where lasting peace and progress are possible, must come from concerned people: individuals and organizations who are willing to work cooperatively while demanding that all governments and societies adopt programs for disarmament and peace...
...considers himself a political liberal; his colleagues guess his voting record would show him to be a mainstream Democrat. The irony, to his critics, is that judges who adopt Ely's "selective activism" could undermine traditionally liberal ideas. Ely does not disagree--but to him, having judges as "an elite with a final word" outweighs the danger of having unwise legislation...