Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reflecting the country's deep outrage at the display and desecration of the American dead, President Carter at a televised press conference assailed the Iranians' "ghoulish action," which he called "a horrible exhibition of inhumanity." He added: "This indicates quite clearly the kinds of people with whom we have been dealing. They did not bring shame and dishonor on those fallen Americans. They brought shame and dishonor on themselves...
...come slowly, but not before a remarkable final display of Tito's legendary physical resistance. Stricken with a dangerous blockage in his circulatory system, Tito was admitted on Jan. 12 to a clinic in the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana. Within eight days, he underwent two high-risk operations: an arterial bypass to circumvent his circulation blockages, and then, after that had failed and gangrene set in, the amputation of his left leg. Tito at first appeared to make a strong recovery from these operations, which he had been given only a fifty-fifty chance of surviving. In February, however...
...hours later, in a display of whipped-up outrage, the Iranian air force dispatched American-made F-4 Phantom fighter-bombers to blast the ruins of the charred aircraft and to disable four other undamaged Sea Stallions abandoned by the U.S. Ironically, as the rubble bounced, one Islamic Guard patrolling the site was killed and two others wounded...
...Shakespeare's Hamlet warns, Carter's enlarged conscience makes a coward of him, then by almost every measure in this sad nation, the future is bleak. It is a season for new resolve, for a display of determination that this White House has never reached before. These days cry out for daring, defiance, even jauntiness. Carter tried, failed, but his message now should be, let the world beware...
...actions. Her performance perfectly complements rumpled David Reiffel's Nickles, to whom MacLeish gives the play's most cynicism at one moment and impassioned pleas for humanity at the next, never allowing his scenes with Brown to become bogged down in the author's cosmic ideas. Both performers display an impressive dramatic range as their feelings toward their "pigeon," J.B., grow more complex...