Word: bit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...admonitory finger at the Soviet Union alone. Last week Carter also delayed his scheduled meeting with Vladimir Bukovsky, a leading Russian dissident and critic of détente who was expelled from the Soviet Union last December. The President decided that seeing Bukovsky last week would be a bit much; after all, the handsome, dark-haired activist had just gone before a congressional commission to urge the U.S. to wage a cold war against the Soviet Union until it relented on human rights. Bukovsky was rescheduled to call this week. The small White House gesture of delay, in the words...
...conceptualize, a point obviously appealing to the intellectual Trudeau, who loves history and broad views. Trudeau conceded that the two men differed in their approach to human rights, to the Soviet dissidents. Trudeau felt the need to keep his voice lower. He hinted that maybe Carter had been a bit surprised at the response to his letter to Andrei Sakharov. But there was also a touch of admiration for a President who based important actions on the simple criterion of "what was right...
...week's command performance into a sort of July 4 barbecue. By this week, Big Daddy might even be proclaiming, as he has done in the past, "I love the Americans. They are my best friends." He might be admonishing Jimmy Carter to "pull up his socks"-a bit of advice he once gave the Queen of England...
There is also the matter of the plot, but you'll have to check that out for yourself. Let's just say that The Late Show has much of the style of some of the great Hollywood shamus movies. Benton borrows quite a bit, most notably a could-be corpse in the bathroom sequence from The Conversation and a manic chase scene from a long line of films. But he steals with style, and this movie has what these detective stories always required: laughs, suspense and the romantic angle. In this business these days, what looks like a bulging...
...Since then, of course, the meaning has altered a bit," Payne added. "Now it's a way of indicating the need for world-wide solidarity of women...