Word: aspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most chilling aspect of the Nicaraguan crisis is the sense of deja vu that hangs over the scene. As Pol Pot and Shah Reza Pahlavi were cast by the wayside, to be replaced with governments far worse, if imaginable, than their predecessors, and as Allende fell and his country experienced a similar fate, can Nicaragua expect to 'meet the new boss, same as the old boss," as The Who put despite State Department fears for the worse, is actually comprised mostly of businessmen and U.S.-educated professionals, including only two hard-core leftist guerillas...
...state highway commission, the citizens' associations, the building trades and local mayors looking for tax bases. What started as Lamm's crusading leadership shook down after almost two years into a political compromise: not an interstate, but a four-lane parkway, with limited interchanges. Compromise has become an increasing aspect of modern leadership...
...national air line, Lanica, its major shipping company, the Mamenic Line, perhaps 25% of its best farm land, and an array of other enterprises. Says Richard Millett, author of The Guardians of the Dynasty, a highly critical account of the Somoza family: "It was hard to find any aspect of the economy in which they were not deeply entrenched...
...some aspect of her acting that casts Twiggy, nee Lesley Hornby, in those Roaring Twenties roles? Or is it the same features that made her Britain's trendy fashion model a decade ago: her boyish charm? Twiggy was a kind of '20s bopper in The Boy Friend eight years ago. Now she is a genuine flapper in There Goes the Bride. Co-Star Tommy Smothers plays an addled adman who cracks his head on a door and hallucinates enough to dawdle with the Twiggy of the '20s, whose picture he was about to use in an advertising...
...worst aspect of Meatballs is that it plays against his strengths. His combination of brashness and tenderness would work perfectly in a romantic comedy, something along the lines of Foul Play. Instead, Murray has tried to emulate Belushi: Meatballs is an Animal House ripoff, transplanted from the campus to a summer camp. The film demands that its star be wild and gross-characteristics for which Murray has no great affinity...