Word: bereft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that barometer of with-itness, features jeans made of "natural stonewashed denim." Golden Key Creations of Fort Worth urges customers: "Be pure, natural, beautiful with Vitamin E cream!" Breeder's Choice Pet Foods has launched a new line of "all natural" dog food, which is the regular line bereft of additives, and Weleda, Inc., of Spring Valley, N.Y., sells "an all-natural, non-aerosol spray deodorant." Bootstrap Press of Glendale, Calif., offers a book that teaches "the deep natural breathing you were born with...
...passed, the country seems sunk in joyless apathy. Though darkness comes late to Poland's northern summer days, the streets of major cities are empty by early evening. Cracow's ancient market square, normally crowded with youths, folk singers and tourists, seems as lifeless as a clock bereft of hands...
...some areas, however, nothing seems to work. In Pittsburgh, the steel industry and its suppliers have been badly hit by the recession. Unemployment in some neighboring communities like Butler is up as high as 18%, leaving the area almost bereft of buyers. Paul Murphy, an agent for Century 21 in suburban Pittsburgh, reports that many people would like to leave the region to look for new jobs elsewhere, but can find no buyers for their houses...
...Bereft of any long-range political strategy, U.S. foreign policy has increasingly focused on arms sales abroad, which is one idea that Haig and Weinberger agree on-sort of. Typically, Weinberger would go further and faster than Haig; he pushed hard for the sale of AWACS to Saudi Arabia, while the Secretary of State was lukewarm. Nonetheless, both Secretaries and the White House staff agree that the U.S. must arm friendly nations, both to win their cooperation and to keep them from turning to the Soviets for weapons. Indeed, Haig in Morocco and Weinberger in Saudi Arabia and Oman were...
...maternal woman who has followed along--a beautiful woman who weeps and cradles her man like a precious flower that has withered in the heat. This image, and the tender portrait of reconciliation on the posters, is the mushy and affecting core of Warren Beatty's Reds, a movie bereft of political ideology and ultimately uninterested in the Russian Revolution. It's about a rich Harvard boy with big dreams--an armchair socialist--who gets in over his head in a strange land, an artist who tried desperately to be a politician and got himself crucified. And it's about...