Word: certain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with abortion; he says he will call it sometime before mid-October. One legislator has already filed a bill mirroring the Missouri law upheld by the Supreme Court; pro-lifers plan to introduce further measures, including one allowing fathers to intervene in abortion decisions. But it is far from certain that any restrictions will be enacted. A poll in May found that 59% of Florida voters and 51% of state legislators consider abortion a private matter. Pro-choice Democrats will try to bottle up restrictive bills in committees, and if they fail, their allies will argue in court that...
...although students here support the prodemocracy movement and condemn the actions of the Chinese government, many say that they are not certain what measures they should take...
...people who worked on this movie are not without a certain sophistication. They know that the heroic, tragic and farcical modes, all of which they briefly lurch toward in the course of the film, are not really appropriate to their story. They are also aware of how rapidly the world has spun since their protagonist was burning pianos and churning up teenage hormones. Accelerated change of that sort produces the kind of broad fundamental irony that moviemakers who take themselves seriously always love. How dumb we were. And so recently. How easy it is to encourage the audience to join...
...portrayal that goes over the top in nicely calculated measure. And Winona Ryder contributes a hypnotically enigmatic performance -- articulate innocence and inarticulate knowingness all mixed up -- as the singer's nymphet bride. All these authenticities fitfully but forcefully remind us that back in the enervated '50s, there were certain unspeakably raunchy things in life and fantasy that Jerry Lee Lewis put us in touch with while Johnny Mathis and Jerry Vale were otherwise engaged...
...there was also an element of discomfiting truth in the message he sent. The thing about the young Jerry Lee was that he was all fecklessness and recklessness, without a shrewd thought in his head -- and without a Colonel Parker to cover up his skid marks. There is a certain irony in that, but it is of an altogether more subtle and interesting kind than anything Great Balls of Fire has to offer...