Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ASSAULT WAS THIS YEAR'S Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film, and it's not hard to see why. It was no doubt less offensive to the sensibilities of the Academy than was its closest competitor, the sex-and-violence laden Betty Blue, yet it is a daring, disturbing, well-crafted film...
Although its title might lead you to believe otherwise, Stop Making Sense is not a screwball comedy--rather, it is a screwball Art/Rock Concert film. If you like the Talking Heads, you will no doubt be delighted with David Byrne's huge wacky suit. If you do not like the Talking Heads, however, sight gags posing as art will not endear you to this overly long movie. No one will deny, however, the unmistakeable energy and charming enthusisasm of the Talking Heads in their film debut...
...American efforts to find a negotiated settlement to the war in Nicaragua. Two days before De la Madrid arrived, President Jose Napoleon Duarte of El Salvador slipped unannounced into Santo Tomas, some 30 miles south of the capital, where Cerezo has a country retreat. The Duarte visit, which no doubt included discussion of the region's problems, was part of Cerezo's intricate diplomatic skein. Last month Cerezo met with President Daniel Ortega Saavedra in Nicaragua. The Sandinista leader reiterated his refusal to negotiate with the U.S.-backed contras, but the two agreed to keep talking. Cerezo's critics believe...
...consulting firm. "There is a desire for security, privacy, a nest. Anything you can make that is easy and secure, warm and available, you can market to their cocoon." Philip Kotler, professor of marketing at Northwestern, divides DINKs into upper and lower classes: U-DINKs and L-DINKs. No doubt, while the L-DINKs are rushing to graduate from K mart to Marshall Field, the U-DINKs will be deserting the Banana Republic for Abercrombie & Fitch. Because busy U-DINKs tend to miss mass-media advertising, upscale magazines and direct mail are the most effective way to target them. Kotler...
...self-confident, and we know that we are on the right track. We have our difficulties, of course. Who has not? But there is no doubt that we are making progress in our economy, in our military strength, in our security. Peace is making progress...