Word: elementals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is cynical stuff from one of the most "respected" characters in popular fiction. But Puzo knows the mass-market game better than most: Give the angels the good looks, the devils the best lines, and keep the prose cinematic. This element is so strong that the book seems to be only the pupal stage of a story impatient to spread celluloid wings...
...best aspects of this work, which the authors claim is the first serious historical study of the antiwar movement, is its account of many little known element of the anti war movement...
...unions hope for a payoff next time ore than a year ago, the 13.7 million-member AFL-CIO took the unprecedented step of endorsing a Democratic presidential candidate, Walter Mondale, before a single caucus or primary had been held. The goal: to establish labor early on as the decisive element in the Democrats' bid for the White House. "If we do not do what we propose to do, we shall be reviled as toothless and irrelevant," said AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland at the time. "If we succeed, we shall be condemned for daring to aspire to a share...
Sorbara is a key element of Harvard Coach Joe Restic's Multiflex system, in which the wingback blocks to set up open spaces through which the fullback and halfback...
...veterans felt that the wall was not uplifting, not heroic enough. So officials of the memorial fund risked the wrath of those who liked the wall as it was and asked Frederick Hart, 40, a Washington sculptor who had finished third in the initial competition, to design an added element. Last week his statue of seven-foot-tall bronze figures was set in place opposite the wall to await a formal unveiling on Nov. 9. Hart depicts three typical fighting men "gazing at a vision of war, its loss, its enormity . . . peering into our own eternity, perhaps even searching...