Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...writer was a great solitary who tried to work out every moral conflict at her desk, in tales, letters or learned analyses. In 1923-24, for example, she made her famous and tortured marriage to Bror Blixen and her doomed affair with Denys Finch Hatton the subjects of a brief, piercing look at Eros from the inside. Scrutinizing the relation of morality to marriage, she concluded that the two are parallel but rarely converge, and that George Bernard Shaw was right when he said that confusing them had done "more to destroy the conscience of the human race than...
...even Salle's most devout fans seem able to say what his pictures are about, for all their literary overtones. They are laden with sexual imagery ) -- Salle's work seems to owe a lot to a brief stint he did as a layout man for the porn magazine Stag in the mid-'70s -- but that imagery comes out as congealed, monotonous sleaze. Salle's nudes are mere signs for bimbos, not erotic presences, and their popularity may be linked to the cynicism of their sexual politics...
...made a terrible noise that his laughing students likened to a "tubercular cough." He always dressed simply, allowed no jokes and demanded punctuality, but he was a popular teacher who never punished his charges. At the end of each lesson, the mild man in sandals generally delivered a brief lament for the corruption of their society...
Between these two incidents, Woody Allen offers brief, casually brilliant parodies of radio performers and formats: an inspirational sports storyteller modeled on Bill Stern; a smarmy counselor like Mr. Anthony; and, of course, a superhero for boys, the "Masked Avenger." The slender thread holding this part of the movie together recounts the rise from cigarette girl to airwaves gossip star of Sally White (played with her customary comic poignance by Mia Farrow...
...killings could not have come at a worse time for Aquino, whose brief presidency has been a perilous struggle to unite the divided country under her popular leadership. The trouble broke less than two weeks before she is to face a major political test: a Feb. 2 plebiscite on a new constitution, drafted by her government. If the basic law, which would supplant the Marcos constitution of 1973, wins the voters' approval, it will not only confirm Aquino in the presidency for a full six-year term but will be widely viewed as an indicator of her popularity and legitimacy...