Word: elementals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their relationship there has always been an element of Tom trying to equal Frank's example. "I looked up to him a lot. He was the one who talked me into coaching. I have him to blame for this mess. He's the one to blame for Saturday," Tom says, obliquely...
...used to be that Bogart Jackson's father had no qualms about his son's chosen vocation. It had a certain element of class in the non-sociological sense, and there had been no doubt his son would prove to be the next young, handsome--and rich--professional golfer. At 14, Bogart Jackson had shot a scorching 64 at the Atlanta Golf Club, From the back tees. At 18, he seemed a sure bet to gain his tour card, holding down a three-stroke lead with one round to play in the qualifying tourney...
...Neill has been blessed with a strong complement of actors and singers in the lead roles, but only two have a crucial element that earns them special praise. Tom Uskali as the Pirate King rivals Groucho in his mastery of greasepaint-mustache manipulation but never descends to slapstick. Uskali's perpetual air of bemusement gives lines like "our revenge will be swift and terrible" a wonderful screwball appeal...
...sheaf of white pages far from his body so that he could read the large-type Cyrillic characters without his eyeglasses, Brezhnev at first seemed to confirm his audience's suspicions by announcing in his heavy, measured monotone that he had come to Bonn with a "new, essential element" in the Soviet position. Then he said, "In the course of genuine negotiations with the U.S., we would be ready to reduce [mediumrange weapons] not by the dozens but by the hundreds. I repeat: by the hundreds...
...page report on the Brixton riots released last week and commissioned by the Conservative government last April while the streets still smoldered, Lord Scarman, 70, a senior judge, concludes, "There was a strong racial element in the disorders. But they were not a race riot. The riots were essentially an outburst of anger and resentment by young black people against the police." Lord Scarman concedes that while "institutional racism" does not exist in Britain, "racial disadvantage and its nasty associate racial discrimination have not yet been eliminated. They poison minds and attitudes. They are, and so long as they remain...