Word: asserts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shoot what seems to be a simple sequence, the meeting of his tramp character and Virginia Cherrill's blind flower girl in City Lights, he spent 83 days, 62 of which were devoted to thinking the scene over while his company idled, on salary, waiting for genius to assert itself. Sometimes, as with a comedy called The Professor, he would start a film, complete whole sequences as masterly as anything he had ever done, and then simply junk the entire work...
...cyclopaedic knowledge of nature and society, clairvoyant scientific insight with which to perceive clearly the essence of inextricably entangled phenomena and ability to compress aspirations of millions of people in a simple proposition ... are his distinguished qualities with which to conduct ideo-theoretical activities." Moreover, North Korean officials steadfastly assert that the world looks to Pyongyang for inspiration and that the government's paid propaganda advertisements in Western newspapers constitute editorial acclaim for the Great Leader. "Korea," observed one high-level official, "is the freest country in the world...
...story is the same. Gere steals a car, kills a highway patrolman without quite meaning to, while heading for the big city and an up-scale lady. She knows better than to scratch this itch, does anyway, but then betrays her lover to the police, mostly, it seems, to assert the ascendancy of middle-class values over steaming sexual impulse. In the original movie, Jean Seberg played an American stranger in the strange French landscape. Here, of course, the roles must be reversed. France's Valerie Kaprisky plays the uprooted thrill seeker with the same air of being stunned...
That promise was by no means broken this year. But for it to be completely fulfilled, the council must next year assert itself more on student issues, practical and political, after careful research. It must also demonstrate humility by keeping in close contact with undergraduates and striking the aloof clauses that let it operate in private. Maybe then the embarrassing, underlying fact will change: this year, as in years past, only about 20 undergraduates deeply cared about a student government that should be of interest...
...spite of some problems with their controversial president, many Yalies seem to love their school. Although the first to admit that Yale's reputation for being a grind has validity, they unabashedly assert that the education is tops. "What distinguishes Yale from a place like Harvard is that we work harder," says one freshman...