Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impact of the Great Debate will depend on the way public perceptions of the two performances shape up over the rest of the week. For the voters, the challenge will be to avoid being swayed by the handiwork of the handlers and to focus instead on the substance of what the two men said and the impressions they were able to convey...
...spend a lot of money on it," says Kira, about to embark on a tour of unhomey rest rooms at National Airport. The public rest room has no such constituency, just a lot of people "who may be there once for three minutes, never to return." Since most people avoid commenting on the facilities, or subscribe to the polite fiction that they haven't visited them, any establishment can safely relegate public rest rooms to a dank and mingy corner. They double as storerooms or janitors' closets...
Defensive Line: Harvard got mowed down convincingly by UMass last week. But don't expect Captain and defensive end Don Peterson to let this unit rest today. Along with defensive tackle Jim Bell, Peterson provides the heat opposing quarterbacks would rather avoid. If Peterson and friends can get to Wiley often, Harvard will win the game...
Monegal agrees, saying, "The festival provides an example of a whole language at how to say things in hidden ways to avoid censorship. [The Franco censors] gave occasion [for Spanish filmmakers] to find expressive means rarely used in free countries...
...film is loosely based on the true story of a couple who were involved in the bombing of a napalm factory in which someone was killed. In Running, the events are changed, and we are told the victim is only wounded, presumably to avoid alienating viewers from the fictitious couple, Annie (Christine Lahti) and Arthur Pope (Judd Hirsch) and their two sons Danny (River Phoenix) and Harry (Jonas Abry...