Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gore and other Democrats say Bush should secure deep cuts in strategic nuclear weapons and embark on an "unprecedented international effort to confront the global ecological crisis...
Perhaps the most moving of these -- a Spanish equivalent, in its effort to embody intellect, of David's portrait of the Lavoisiers -- is his 1798 portrait of Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, the outstanding thinker of the Spanish Enlightenment, a much-exiled man who briefly held state office as the Minister of Religion and Justice under Carlos IV. Goya shows him at an ornate desk in the Madrid palace, lost in melancholy thought amid props that seem out of scale with his modesty...
...versions of What Up, Dog? contain a nifty number called Wedding Vows in Vegas in which Frank Sinatra Jr. provides some very atmospheric vocalizing. Clearly, Was (Not Was) musical inspiration has deep roots in strange places. Nothing less should be expected from a couple of guys whose first taped effort was a Frank Zappa tune and who put on a show in high school titled You Have Just Wasted Your Money...
...When the question comes from party leaders, he reminds them that they begged him to take over the Jackson effort, knowing he would be a unifying influence. It is unfair, he says, to disqualify him for doing what they asked...
...took a fire department rescue team about 10 minutes to free the man's hand from the door of the trash compacting room. Police also brought a bolt cutter to the scene to help with the rescue effort...