Word: barkings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emotionally affected by--a world without any apparent reason or overseeing deity. His surface steely-eyed, fierce-grinning goblin envelops a much more luminous, purposeful character in whom we see our hopes, anxieties, lusts, and humanity, and with whom we attempt to carve a moral niche in the rotting bark of 20th-century civilization. Nicholson's important films involve religion of the self; he acts as he sees fit, spiting society, family, and his hollow "responsibilities" to each. Their characters are not merely selfish--they seek fun, truth, and escape from inhuman constrictions. What was once vice is now virtue...
...Grand Ballroom at New York City's Waldorf-Astoria, as the Second Annual Women's Sports Foundation dinner served a sizable helping of awards and raised some $80,000 to encourage women's participation in sports. "I adore John," Billie Jean commented, "but his bark is worse than his serve." Fault...
Like Sherlock Holmes' deduction from the dog that did not bark in the night, an Administration is sometimes marked by an appointment that was not made. One example last week was that of current Federal Trade Commissioner
...three men in Tracy's life fail to establish bold personality profiles. As Kittredge, Council provides more sullen bark than bite, Converse's Dexter Haven is more earnest than insouciant, and Herrmann must have studied Stewart at least as carefully as he did the script...
...time when most of El Asnam's office buildings and shops were closed because of the Muslim sabbath. But the streets and cafés of the residential neighborhoods teemed with families. Said a survivor: "Everything happened so quickly. The dogs did not have time to bark. It was all over within seconds." Apartment buildings tumbled like houses of cards. The walls of Le Chelif Hotel, which was the city's newest and fanciest, cracked wide open, and its roof caved in. The four-story hospital collapsed. A mosque, the city hall, police station and a girls...