Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...August 1914, when the European continent girded for its first encounter with modern warfare. The film, Fellini's fifteenth, is an adult fairy tale gone bad. The story takes place aboard a luxury liner somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea with a group of passengers representing Europe's elite. This array of artists and nobles have gathered for the scattering of the ashes of a renowned opera star named Edmea Tetua whom they all knew at some point in their lives. The only person present who had no connection with the prima donna is the comical journalist, Orlando (Freddie Jones). Supposedly...
...that time, the matter had become a farce to the public and a serious and dangerous embarrassment to Chancellor Helmut Kohl. He was already beset by an array of domestic political problems concerning; West German relations with the Soviet Union, the continuing deployment of U.S. missiles and the revival of his country's sputtering economy. He did not need the Kiessling-Wörner controversy, which one politician described as "worse than an operetta." Returning from an eight-day trip to the Middle East last week, Kohl sought to bring down the curtain by announcing that Wörner...
Within a few blocks of each other are several Catholic churches, including the area's largest, the Sacred Heart Church. In addition to being places of worship, the churches serve as focal points for a wide array of community activities...
Embattled managers who hope to avoid corporate takeovers can draw upon a wide array of defenses. Many have acquired exotic names: Pac-Man, shark repellent, white knight. Some are more effective than others, and none, alas, work all the time...
...strangely ideological protest that seemed to array impoverished Third World mothers and their babies against a multinational corporation. It went on for 6½ years, but last week it ended. Officials of Nestlé, the biggest supplier of infant formula, and the Infant Formula Action Coalition of Minneapolis, among others, agreed that the boycott of Nestlé products would be stopped if the Swiss company changed its marketing practices...