Word: counters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...protests continued to mount, Solidarity's national commission held an emergency session in Gdansk to draw up a unified course of action. Seeking to counter the extreme demands of union radicals like Jan Rulewski, who called for an opposition political party, Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa warned of the dangers of being goaded into a confrontation. Said he: "Someone wants to draw us into a fight because we are winning." The union boss added that he would soon meet with Jaruzelski to discuss the crisis face to face. Walesa said his first question would be: "Shall we save the country...
...with François Truffaut's The Woman Next Door. "Yes, that's the way these things often go," one says, thinking back over the film in those mulling moments so kindly provided by traffic jams and checkout-counter lines. Indeed, one rather imagines it was blank moments like those that kept Bernard (Gérard Depardieu) and Mathilde (Fanny Ardant, a particularly lovely newcomer) alive in each other's minds between the bitter breakup of their tumultuous romance and their next meeting, seven years later. This occurs when Mathilde and her new husband happen to move...
Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross) exhibits an equally fierce and unusual motivation for running: He is a Jew, and wants to counter anti-Semitism with an Olympic victory. While Liddell races for love, Abrahams races for hate; Liddell's gift is natural, an inspiration, but Abrahams must work hard to win. In a facile attempt to provide concrete visual proof of Abrahams' Judaism, director Hugh Hudson cast Cross, whose dark complexion and hooked nose reflect the stereotypical conception of a Jew. The problems don't end there; Cross badly overacts. It is the desire to show' em all that lends fire...
...children question her sexuality as they struggle to realize their own in a society which has grossly exaggerated the size of Black libido. And so, Angelou says, the Black mother must offer a strong self to her children that will successfully counter the stereotypes society will offer them...
Standing in line at the supermarket is not usually a barrel of laughs. But at Albertson's Food Center in San Jose, Calif., the checkout counter is turning out to be the most entertaining part of the visit. Albertson's, along with five other U.S. supermarkets, has installed a tiny black box manufactured by National Semiconductor Corp. of Santa Clara, Calif. The device electronically simulates a woman's voice calling out the price of each item, the total bill and the amount of change owed shoppers. The machine, dubbed POSitalker, is usually connected to a so-called...