Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Akira Kurosawa was waiting around for international moneymen to cough up the money for his ultimate production--an adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear--he sketched and painted scenes, a practice called "storyboarding." Though Kurosawa's eyesight is failing, he still managed to create dramatically posed illustrations that assault the eyes like a rabid ronin...
...Bradford Reynolds has decided that the Reagan Revolution has not extended far enough into the judiciary. In a speech at the University of Missouri last month, Reynolds indicated that the Administration's covert war on liberal judges was a thing of the past. Instead, he began a direct frontal assault...
...AUDIENCE was not allowed outside during intermission, probably to prevent any last minute assault by suicide stink-bomb squads. Most of the audience poured out into the Wang Center's stuffy lobby, sipping over-priced Coca Colas and complaining about the protesters...
Bennett, a 1971 graduate of the Law School, was invited to speak on the state of higher education as part of the College's 350th anniversary celebration. His speech is an assault on the moral, intellectual, and pedagogical condition of America's colleges and universities...
...Angolan army, backed by as many as 40,000 Cuban troops and more than 1,500 Soviet and East German advisers, should have gained the upper hand long ago. Luanda has received $2 billion in military hardware from Moscow in recent years; airports are crowded with Soviet assault helicopters and fighter aircraft, and ports provide havens for Soviet warships. Despite this mighty arsenal, some Angolan troops are in rags and many are demoralized. Observes a church worker who has lived in the country three years: "When things get tough, they peel off their uniforms and take to the bush...