Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then it was Bailey's turn. Wearing a charcoal gray suit, the banty, 5 ft. 7¾ in. ex-Marine flyer walked to the lectern, folded his arms, leaned toward the jury and, without glancing at his notes, delivered a calm, 30-minute summary of his case. There would be no denial that Patty was in the bank, he said, but he urged the jury to note that "perhaps for the first time in the history of bank robbery, a robber was directed to identify herself in the midst of the act." Patty, his argument ran, was a normal, marriage-bound...
...Kissinger of the Arab world"-received one delegation after another from Lebanon's rival political and confessional factions. Meanwhile, a team of Syrian, Palestinian and Lebanese officers monitored the cease-fire-the 23rd in the nine-month-old civil war-and managed to restore a measure of relative calm to the strife-torn country. Both the highly visible role played by Khaddam and the participation of Syrians on the truce teams were signs that Damascus has emerged, at least for the moment, as the most effective Arab power in the Middle East...
Such phrases ripped through the normal calm of U.S. District Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr.'s legal prose last week as he announced his findings in four lawsuits attacking the entire Alabama state penal system. To Johnson, the situation was so critical and responsible officials were so derelict that in the most sweeping order ever aimed at a state correctional system, he virtually took command of Alabama's prisons...
...more like the thirty she is supposed to be. Adjani manages to epitomize everything French--to be headstrong, passionate, egoistical, elegant, and sophisticated all at once. Thus one of the film's best angles, the contrast between the French and English psyche, is surprisingly successful. The British are civilized, calm, and capable of love--but not of this mad passion...
...occurs when Charles Swann confides to the Due de Guermantes that he is dying. Instead of sympathizing, the Due turns to his wife, who has dressed for a party, and demands that she wear red shoes, not black, to go with her red dress. He tells Swann jovially to calm down; they will be meeting for lunch soon...