Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...creep open each time the train gathers speed. One inch, two inches . . . what next? A young woman in a dressed-for-success suit, leg warmers and running shoes tries to offer some consolation: "But you have a partition to lean against." The connection between leaning against a partition and comfort is, however, unclear to the newcomer...
Attacking Harvard for its investments in American corporations that do business in South Africa, Jackson said "all who sit here silent, living off...the scholarships, the comfort of this alliance, betray the oppressed...Morally it is decadent. It leads to a soul like a donut--with a hole...
...British government also went to some effort to down-play the affair, if only to avoid giving aid and comfort to the anti-cruise movement in Britain, where 32 U.S. cruise missiles are currently based. By contrast, the opposition Labor Party quickly seized on the report as an argument against further deployment of U.S. cruises in Western Europe. Charging that the flight over Scandinavia showed how "unreliable and extremely dangerous" the missiles are, Labor's defense spokesman, Denzil Davies, contended that "it is time for the superpowers to negotiate these weapons out of existence." A senior British official suggested wryly...
...COMFORT AND JOY. Sitcom becomes surrealism in this tale of a Scottish disk jockey's miserable Merry Christmas. The best film yet from cockeyed visionary Bill Forsyth...
...exchange is typical for Hotline, the latest hit show among the call-in homework programs that are bringing aid and comfort to homework sufferers around the nation. Hotline is aired from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday by the Los Angeles Unified School District. Its targets are math and English for junior high schoolers. "That's where the homework really starts to pile up for the first time," says Producer Bob Greene. Launched as a pilot last spring, Hotline drew 3,500 calls in twelve weeks, including a daily ring from Avery Smith...