Word: bowes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...display of emotion was rare for a Prime Minister who seems to glory in her reputation as Britain's "Iron Lady." Thatcher, however, was soon back in form. As further details of the attack emerged and new security measures were carried out, she refused to bow to I.R.A. threats and spoke out as firmly as ever in deploring the nation's 33-week-old coal miners' strike...
...that corporations can do more against apartheid by staying and pushing for change from within. While this tactic can be very effective in some situations, it is completely inappropriate for South Africa at this time. Again and again the South African government has demonstrated that it will not bow to pressure on certain key issues. President Bok may believe that if American corporations only educate and improve the living and working conditions for enough Blacks in South Africa then change will evolve, but the South African government has flatly denied the possibility of Blacks ever getting enfranchised. There are educated...
Percy faces a rough challenge from five-term Congressman Paul Simon, a southern Illinois liberal. Simon is known for his trademark bow ties and hornrimmed glasses and for his effectiveness on Capitol Hill: he had more of his bills passed this year than any other member of the House. Percy, although chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee since 1980, has never pushed through a major bill of his own. Polls show the candidates in a virtual dead heat. Simon has won over many black and Jewish voters who in the past had supported Percy in his more liberal incarnation...
...careful, dogged course between tract and treacle. In this near-miss movie Shepard is once again the icon of incorruptibility who refuses to claim the center of a film. Toward the end of Country Shepard's character disappears, with little explanation, in what may be a gentlemanly bow to Jessica Lange, a flinty, landsomely wasted matriarch. Mother ones, meet Ma Joad. -By Richard Corliss...
Edna Spaulding, played with wonderful strength and control by Sally Field, is a sheriff's wife who suddenly finds herself a widow when her husbands is shot by a drunken black youth. Edna, long accustomed to playing the deferential wife, must bow assume the responsibilities of keeping her family together in a decidedly masculine world of bank mortgages and cotton farming...