Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...themselves behind the galaxy of comic characters they portrayed-looked both stretched and cramped when, in a movie, they were required to inhabit only one personality. From Sid Caesar and Carol Burnett to Lily Tomlin, Gilda Radner and Aykroyd, these performers had enough energy and scarifying talent to burst out of the small screen, but lacked the strong, smooth identities that Hollywood could package as star quality...
...Pope's first direct mention of the banned trade union drew a delirious response. Chants of "Solidarnosc! Solidarnosc!"and "Long live the Pope!" resounded across the airfield. When the crowd burst into another chorus of May You Live a Hundred Years, John Paul finally motioned for silence. "I am still alive," he quipped, "and would like to go on delivering my speech." After calling for "a true dialogue between the authorities and society," he concluded with a tribute to seven miners who were killed during a confrontation with the police at a nearby mine during the opening days...
...having their dignity trampled upon." Then, in a second indirect appeal to jailed Solidarity supporters, he cited Wyszynski's three-year ordeal under house arrest during a state campaign against the church in the 1950s as an example of how to draw strength from adversity. The congregation burst into applause when John Paul thanked God that Wyszynski had been "spared the sad events associated with the date of Dec. 13, 1981," when martial law was imposed...
...police batons have often sought medical aid at St. Martin's. Members of the committee, however, found that the centuries-old rule that those standing on God's soil were immune from earthly powers was broken with cruel abruptness last month when two dozen young toughs burst into the convent, smashed furniture, vandalized supplies, and savagely beat six committee members. From the minute the men came in, there was little doubt as to their identity: they were openly carrying police walkie-talkies. A few days later, militiamen picked up the teen-age son of a volunteer in another...
...Gould has a taste for the fun nuptial. At the conclusion of his own marriage ceremony in 1977, he turned to his bride, before the assembled guests, and said: "Thank you for choosing an outrageous cuss like me." He was overcome. He broke down and wept. His bride burst out laughing...