Word: broads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with little purpose, and the almost sing-song nature of her voice makes her sound at one moment girlish, at another manly. Yet often her guttural inflections serve her well, as she threatens either Sybil or Elyot. Burton fares better, for he avoids Taylor's tendency to slip into broad, overstated gestures. However, Burton's disinterested demeanor occasionally seems to reflect a boredom with his part. And his and Taylor's hostile interludes lead to the play's most unintentionally humorous moments...
...scholarship in humanities, social sciences and life sciences has begun to illuminate the political, cultural, economic, and social roles of women, to assess the contributions of women to society and culture, and to analyze the function of gender in a wide spectrum of societies and cultures. Under the broad rubric of Women's Studies, that scholarship has both produced new knowledge and revised our understanding of established information and modes of thought Scholars have tapped neglected resources that reveal women's experiences, and have brought to the forefront often forgotten texts and other cultural products by women. The scholarly interest...
...caused to a large extent by nuclear weapons. To his credit. Arbatov recognizes this difficulty. And he understands how much more appealing a cold war environment ("where everything moves on the level of a cheap western") can be that the philosophy of detente, "in which one has to be broad-minded and tolerant enough to understand the possibility and desirability of coexistence between nations that are vastly different in their social systems political institutions, values, sympathies and antipathies...
Explaining that rock hands at the Washington Mall's annual Fourth of July concert have been attracting "the wrong element. James G. Watt announced that this year's event would be different. It would "appeal to families and a broad range of Americans," in a spokesman's words, and it would feature the heart swelling music of Wayne Newton and various military bands...
...crazed animator Terry Gilliam to create some of the wackiest sequences he has ever penned, galaxies swoop in and out of file cabinets and the sun rapidly mitotes into a fetus while, for background music, a typical Python "French" accent promises to "explain it all for you tonight." So broad are the cinemographic possibilities that the movie's structure, crisp at first, ends up as a loose collection of scattershot satires...