Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...winter light is already dim, and in a Manhattan cafe the blond girl is squirming in her seat, dying for a smoke. The cigarette machine is broken. "This is like a joke," she says, annoyed, and leaves her plate of eggs Benedict to bum a Marlboro from one of the other diners. Smoking happily at last, she gives a quick account of herself, sounding bored beyond her years. She dropped out of high school four years ago, at 15, and has no job and no firm idea of what she will do next. She likes to stay up until...
...food supplies are bountiful when compared with those in the U.S.S.R., yet many citizens feel that the Czechoslovak Communist Party has broken its pledge by failing to ensure stable prices and no shortages. The popular response, so far at least, is to cheat a bit more, which could be an extraordinary feat in this economy. The Czechs were once famous throughout Europe for their strict orderliness and scrupulous honesty, but that reputation is now tarnished. Everyone cuts a corner here, steals something there. Lubomir, for example, is a 34-year-old boiler repairman in the city of Brno. His monthly...
...should have been so lucky. By the time he got his skate off. Olson realized the pain was above the ankle "I just said "It's broken "I knew it was broken...
...Thomas Ball's Emancipation. a bronze statue created in 1874. The huge artwork depicts a majestic President Abraham Lincoln, armed with his famous Proclamation, benevolent hand outstretched, in the act of liberating a barely clothed Black salve. The bondsman who humbly kneels before the Great Emancipator, his manacles finally broken, seems unable to comprehend his new found freedom and elevated social status. Local Black groups, offended by the paternalistic relationship implied by the statue, have asked that it be moved to an out-of-sight location...
...film does have a few nice touches. The couple's hurried wedding in a Hispanic chapel with the preacher's very broken English is quite charming. And with the little material they have, the Broadway veterans Jessica Tandy and Barnard Hughes perform their customary wonders of characterization...