Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most political observers it is almost tries to assert that Massachusetts is one of the most liberal states in the nation. One only has to mention the reception former Sen. George McGovern (D-S.D.), victim of a landslide defeat in the 1972 presidential election, received here after the election. "Nixon 49, America I" the buttons of cheering supporters read, proudly boasting that the Commonwealth was the only state that voted for the liberal Democrat...
...Tavoularis has created a show-stopping amalgam of razzle and dazzle, sending skyrockets speckling over what looks like a mile-long Strip of surreal glitter. Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro has lighted these sets in gloriously garish Technicolor-pulsating magentas and ambers that mirror the characters' moods even as they assert the environmental imperative. Coppola has staged his scenes in long, sensuous takes. A single shot may comprise several scenes, several planes of action and setting, while the camera glides around the ordinary hero and heroine like the young Astaire around a lamppost. They are ordinary indeed. As played by Teri...
...among workers--"the little guys"--that they are powerless to control their own lives. It shows people that decisions made by corporations and politicians can deprive men and women their basic right to earn livelihoods, for no apparent reason. More than anything else, the unemployed vote against incumbents to assert their dignity and their will to have a say in their own futures...
...zone necessarily react in the same ways to the terrors around them. What all these children do have in common is a fierce will to survive?a will that sometimes takes the form of revenge, and at other times, of an abiding serenity. But no matter how they assert themselves, there is an essential good-heartedness in almost all these children, a generosity of nature that transcends and diminishes anything they have suffered...
...mathematics at Columbia University's Teachers College, sees Saxon's innovations as insignificant and ineffectual: "One can't teach algebra only as a skill. Drill and practice are only part of the problem." He likens drilling to the lowest common denominator of algebra. Mathematical literacy, assert Saxon's critics, is not simply the ability to calculate, but the ability to reason quantitatively...