Word: boasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fumiko Enchi wrote Masks 25 years ago, but only this year did Knopf publish an English translation. Enchi is described as one of Japan's most important women writers, Masks as her finest work. However, an unlikely plot, combined with a superficial theme and vacuous characterization, make that boast at best difficult to believe...
...Mahatma," tracing Gandhi's life (at $85 a day), and vacations at The Lake Palace hotel in Udaipur, where parts of Octopussy were shot. Australia and New Zealand are enjoying a tourist boom, thanks to Yanks. Luxury liners expect to draw 15% more passengers than last year, and boast that 40% of the Love Boat crowd nowadays is under 35. There is an ever wider choice of far-out adventure vacations: trekking in the Himalayas, gorilla watching in Rwanda, bicycling through the People's Republic of China...
High-technology entrepreneurs like to boast that their business is nonpolluting and environmentally sound. But every industry carries environmental risks, and electronics is no exception. The manufacture of computer chips, for example, requires acid baths (to etch microscopic circuits onto tiny ceramic wafers) and vats of industrial cleaning fluids (to wash away extraneous specks). And where there are powerful chemicals, waste-storage difficulties are not far behind...
...conditions may seem contradictory a lack of party rivalry and intense political battles But such apparent inconsistency permeates the Commonwealth Massachusetts is widely acknowledged as a liberal haven the only state which can boast of supporting George McGovern over Richard Nixon in the 1972 presidential race But from 1979 through 1982. It was ruled by Gov. Edward J King, who opposed abortion, supported the death penalty, condemned "welfare cheats," trumpeted the values of tax cuts and supply-side economics, and was embraced by President Reagan as his "favorite Democratic governor." King's reign came to an end after he barely...
...Daniel Vigne recreates 16th-century village life in painstaking detail. The film spills over with highly convincing silhouettes of village routines--shaking the chaff from the grain in woven baskets, donning animal costumes for a religious festival, and the ubiquitous grape-stomping. Remarkably enough, the village men and women boast wrinkles, bulges and (best of all) noses--Artifat's denizens look as though they were yanked off a Bruegel canvas, not a studio backlot. Enhanced by excellent costuming and set design, these characters present an unusually rich, as well as credible, glimpse into the past. The two leads both turn...