Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...short, what the amendment proposes is a loony parody of cultural democracy in which everyone becomes his or her own Cato the Censor. Clearly, Jesse Helms has no doubt that the NEA must be punished if it strays from what he fancies to be the center line of American ethical belief. The truth is, of course, that no such line exists -- not in a society as vast, various and eclectic as the real America. Helms' amendment might have played in Papua, where a Government spokesman defended the banning of Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ on the grounds...
...tiger or devoured by a crocodile." But this parallel does not stand up. Hun Sen has been rebuilding the country that the Khmer Rouge destroyed. If it ever comes to a hard choice between him and the Khmer Rouge, as indeed it might, the Cambodian people would without doubt choose Hun Sen. So should...
...have got a bit illegible towards teatime . . . A few very stiff drinks later, we looked at the list and realised we'd forgotten the Foreign Office, so M. had to ring a little shopwalker figure called Mr. Major who not surprisingly couldn't believe his luck and will no doubt continue to embarrass us in the councils of the nations for many moons to come...
...traveler may then dally at Omaha's splendidly revitalized Old Market, which evokes gold seekers and prairie pioneers heading out aboard the Union Pacific railway circa 1865. But by the time you reach Al's Oasis at Oacoma, S. Dak., on a bluff over the glistening Missouri River, all doubt vanishes as quickly as adherence to the speed limit on I-90. The proud sign at Al's, a pit stop featuring buffalo burgers and passable 5 cents coffee, unabashedly announces WHERE THE WEST BEGINS...
Foreign analysts continue to doubt that Doi and her Socialists will soon rule Japan. Says Richard Holbrooke, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs: "The chances of Doi's becoming Prime Minister are just tiny." The Japanese, however, know better than to tell Takako Doi what she can and cannot do. They remember the deputy mayor of Kobe...