Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Logical Appeal...
...makes sense in our society," Andrews says, adding that she thinks that quality is responsible for the appeal the faith holds for many...
...this issue, our Woman of the Year, Corazon Aquino, is unlikely to | confuse or outrage anyone, save for die-hard supporters of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, whom she helped to oust. "She is one of the rare world leaders whose appeal crosses every barrier of ideology and geography," says Contributor Pico Iyer, who wrote the main story. "All the world can rejoice in her rise." Aquino is the third member of her sex to occupy the cover alone as the annual TIME choice. She follows Queen Elizabeth (1952) and Wallis Simpson (1936). A Women of the Year cover...
During the year Gorbachev issued a dizzying series of arms-control initiatives that left the Reagan Administration on the policy defensive. His disarmament proposals ranged from nuclear-free zones to global peace conferences. These may have been insincere, unenforceable or impractical, but they never lacked appeal for left-of-center groups around the world...
...absence of background or typical TV moralizing gives At Mother's Request its tabloid appeal. Quite simply, these people are too crazy to learn anything from. Frances is not merely an overdemanding mother but a near psychotic whose fevered outbursts ("How dare you mention Las Vegas in this house!") would be gag lines in any other TV show. Her "good" son Marc is fixated on movie cameras and tape recorders; Larry is convinced that nuclear war will break out before his college finals. The relationship between mother and sons has a creepy Oedipal ambiguity. Says Frances to Marc, ominously...