Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Styron's book, unfortunately, is not quite a masterpiece, and from its structure come the main cracks in a movie that otherwise lawlessly accomplishes its goal. As written, the story of Stingo. Sophie and Sophie's New York lover. Nathan, is immersed in almost 600 pages of self-conscious, intellectualized ramblings on Stingo's past his guilt and his sexual frustration. This literary technique takes some of the emphasis off the actual events he confronts...
...flavor. As TIME'S Buenos Aires bureau chief from 1979 to 1981, Russell got a first-hand education in Latin American culture. He was also the writer of some half a dozen cover stories on the Falklands war between Argentina and Britain Russell, born in Canada, was particularly conscious of Mexico's status as a next-door neighbor...
...first person to reach the van was Special Agent W.H. Seals, who found Mayer barely conscious, mumbling, "They shot me in the head." Inside, explosives experts found no TNT but an ample supply of food and water and a portable TV set. Moments later, under the glare of helicopter searchlights, Mayer died, killed by bullet fragments in the head. His short, unhappy ride was over...
...seemed paramount. The catalogue promised nifty bargains to customers who made a $7.50 purchase-for example, a 26-piece silver-plate tableware set for $4.99. A number of other items look no less alluring. You needed garters to hold them up, but silk stockings were 78?. In pre-diet conscious America, there were 2-lb. fruitcakes selling for 49?, and 4 Ibs. of mixed nuts cost 79?. A man's cotton-broadcloth shirt sold for $1.69, and a wool sweater for $1.95. For women, black leather oxfords cost $1.98, and a one-quarter carat diamond set in 18-karat...
...envisioned a special place for students in the arms control movement as well He had both observed and worked with politically conscious students and had formed a definite opinion of how students can be most politically effective. He told me stories of how some students had such unwieldy or outrageous plans to change the world that they wasted their potential to make a valuable political contribution Either they were too ambitious and unrealistic or they simply did not know enough of the facts. Thus when I asked him how I, as a student could best contribute to the arms control...