Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...haunting reminder to a government all too anxious to forget. On walls, trees and newspaper kiosks around Buenos Aires last week, 30,000 painted human silhouettes were pasted up; each bore the name and age of one of the more than 6,000 civilians who disappeared during the 1970s, apparently at the hands of the ruthless military. Then the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, the group that has tenaciously been protesting those disappearances for six years, launched a special 24-hour march of resistance. As onlookers applauded, 5,000 protesters marched amid a sea of waving banners, crying, "We want...
...While two of the Aussies' losses could be ascribed mainly to equipment failures, their nemesis loomed as Dennis Conner, Liberty's fearsome skip per. Conner defended the Cup against the Aussies in 1980, winning four out of five races. He is not an endearing man: he is anxious, abrasive and overweight, hard and unforgiving on the water. Co-author of a book called No Excuse to Lose, he has spent 6,000 hours at the helm of 12-meter boats over the past five years, and he was determined to win again. "There's more...
...important issues should be tied to Soviet conduct across the board. But the Administration insisted last week that the uproar over the Korean jet will not necessarily prevent continued negotiations in Geneva on Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) or Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START). West European leaders were particularly anxious that the INF talks not be broken off just as the highly controversial deployment of NATO missiles is about to begin. Reagan heeded their urgings. Said he: "We must and will continue to reach out for arms-reduction agreements to reduce the nuclear and conventional arms that threaten humankind...
Cujo takes its ill-natured time getting its potential victims, a mother (Dee Wallace, who played a less anxious mom in E.T) and her young son (Danny Pintauro), isolated from help and into deadly conflict with a possessed spirit. But it is worth waiting for the careful logic of Novelist Stephen King's plot to work itself out. For their demon is not from outer space or the weirder reaches of the occult. No, Cujo is a junkyard dog. But he is huge. And maddened by rabies. And thoroughly implacable in his need to kill. As he proved...
...performances are tense and knowing, including that of Ryuichi Sakamoto, who plays the young captain (he also composed the film's haunting score). But the Merry Christmas catalogue of atrocities finally becomes numbing, even udicrous. Oshima describes the wartime Japanese as ''a nation of anxious people who could do nothing individually-so they went mad en masse." Alas, he does not explain that madness; he only puts it on horrific display. -By Richard Corliss