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Word: constantly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Star Wars plan. In opening up new fields for weapons, you risk dismantling an already delicate military balance. The position of France is that peace depends on a strong military balance and on re-establishing it when it is upset. There must be a constant effort to bring this balance to a lower level. Regarding the prospects opened up by President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, I think that it is too early to arrive at definitive conclusions. In any case, there is nothing there that could lead France to modify its own defense policy, which is based...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France We Have to Adjust | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

...folk. This is why the "subway vigilante" is "Bernhard Hugo Goetz" to many journalists who consider him a monster, and just plain "Bernhard Goetz" to almost everyone else. Another rule of the language is that euphemisms for "fat" are understood too quickly by the public and are therefore in constant need of replacement. "Jolly," "Rubenesque" and the like have long been abandoned. A Washington writer scored by praising a woman's "Wagnerian good looks," which is far more polite than saying she is not bad looking for a massive Brunnhilde. The disinfecting compliment is particularly deft. As all practitioners know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Journalese for the Lay Reader | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

Britten's score is particularly responsive to the emotions that run through the core of James' story. We not only hear Miss Jessel verbally bemoaning her fate, but also the heavy constant tone of suffering in the music. Even more ambiguous feelings come through, such as the rather naive disbelief that characterizes the housekeeper Mrs Grose (Nan Hughes). Hughes portrays Mrs. Grose as a harried, trusting woman whose gentle nature cannot comprehend the horror that surrounds her. She is a striking example of the professionalism, both in singing and acting, that marks the entire cast of this opera...

Author: By Anne Tobias, | Title: As the Screw Turns | 3/15/1985 | See Source »

...insane characters Whether he is a wormish clerk or an overly zealous medical student, a demented energy is always present He also exhibits many of the characteristic excesses of the show. His weasel-like voice in the first and last scenes is a little too much, as is his constant stooping But his energy consistently gets a laugh...

Author: By T H. Doyle, | Title: 'Doctored' Chekov Scores a Hit At Cabot | 3/15/1985 | See Source »

...Greene's constant readers will disagree. The Tenth Man offers, in small compass, the narrative combination that eventually became recognized as the author's trademark; it is a smoothly plotted psychological thriller in which the hero must struggle not only for his life but for his soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grace Notes the Tenth Man | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

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