Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Except Donna isn't really beautiful, and barely pretty. Her main attraction seems to be her Anglo looks, especially her blond hair and blue eyes. That she is wealthy and has a racist father no doubt adds to her appeal...
Ritchie wants to make it with Donna's crowd. So when, late in the movie, Rosie asks Ritchie who he loves, the golden boy replies, "No one you would know." Therein lies Donna's appeal. She's out of Rosie's, and more generally, the barrio's league...
...street.' " Owning a pit bull, says Robert Armstrong, Houston's chief animal controller, "is a warning to others to stay off the sidewalk." Randall Lockwood of the Humane Society notes that the animals have become increasingly popular as dog fighting has moved from rural areas into cities. They appeal "to the disfranchised and the unemployed. The owners themselves are often violent." Tufts' Loew sees the bonding of owner and dog as akin to a "horror movie," with maladjusted owners training their dogs to be an "extension of themselves...
...districts were allowed to choose from party-appointed electoral lists with more candidates on the ballot than positions to be filled. The Supreme Soviet, the country's nominal parliament, voted to permit popular referendums on regional political and social issues and to allow citizens the right of judicial appeal against certain decisions by Communist Party officials...
...ground upon which the superpower competition will henceforth be waged, the West should be pleased: the new playing field is one on which the Soviets are still amateurs. For if the rivalry evolves from one based on military assertion into one dominated by the force of ideas, the appeal of values and the potency of economic systems, then the U.S. and its allies have much to gain and little to fear...