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...death the relatively insignificant "hymie controversy" is ample evidence of their own "hypocrisy" and "racial demagoguery." We are amazed that Ronald Reagan's terrorism against Third World peoples and Walter Mondale's high position in a corporation that invests in the oppressive South African regime have failed to disturb Hirschorn as much as Reverend Jackson's remarks have. At worst, Reverend Jackson's words lead to hurt feelings, while the actions of Reagan and Mondale lead to genocide...
...Aurora Greenway (Shirley MacLaine) clambering up over the side of her baby's crib and hurling herself on the tot, hysterically convinced that she has only seconds to administer the kiss of life to her darling Emma and save her from crib death. Naturally, all she does is disturb a healthy infant's sleep. From this scene it is obvious that Terms of Endearment is a comedy...
Officials strees that all this construction should not greatly disturb the building's workers and bureaucrats. And these tenants themselves express little concern about the pending renovations...
...simmer of unrest in China, The simmer of unrest in China, the undersputter, is pervasive. There comes first, when one looks for opposition, the old Red Army. Trained in combat, promoted by victory, its leaders were men of capacity and command. Slowly, so as not to disturb a slumbering volcano, the aging commanders are being urged out. Retirement is greased with comforts: full pay, choice of home anywhere in China, honors and consultancies. The murmur of envy puts it that such retired generals are guaranteed fangzi, chezi, haizi ? quarters at least as good as those they enjoyed as commanding...
...Without explanation, the poker-faced monarch proceeded to recite a gnomic waka (a traditional 31-syllable poem) composed by his grandfather, the Meiji emperor: "On the seas surrounding all quarters of the globe/ All people are kin to each other/ Why then do winds and waters of conflict/ Disturb peace among us?" He said no more on the subject...