Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That line drew strong applause. The theme was repeated as Carter added that "the American people are sick and tired of federal paper work and red tape" and reported progress on "turning the gobbledygook of federal regulations into plain English that people can understand." More applause...
They do so even though English is not their first tongue. (What is better for the Palestinians-self-rule or self-determination? "They are not so different, Barbara," Sadat answers calmly.) One has to go back nearly a third of a century, to Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain speech at Fulton, Mo., to find a foreign leader so skilled at, and so preoccupied with, influencing American opinion...
...weekend. There was so much jollity on the Paramount set that Jack Nicholson, who was making Goin' South on the next sound stage, sent over a note: "Listen, either put me in the movie, or turn off the noise." The whole thing, says Travolta, was "what the English would call a romp...
...subject tried to be gracious. It is "a remarkable example of modern art," pronounced Sir Winston Churchill at the unveiling in Westminster Hall in 1954 of his 80th birthday present, a portrait commissioned by Parliament and painted by the famed English neoromanticist Graham Sutherland. But his remark was tongue in cheek, and the audience roared. Winnie thought the portrait, which had a gloomy, resigned-to-age air about it, made him look "half-witted, which I ain't." His dutiful wife Clementine put it out of sight in the basement and promised her husband that it would never...
...school at age six by his tyrannical father, he lived alone in the fields and tended his family's flock until he turned 20. Only when he escaped to the Italian army did he discover the pleasures of literacy, industrialized civilization and social intercourse. In Padre Padrone (English title: My Father, My Master), we see how Ledda overcame his punishing childhood and the cultural heritage of centuries to seize a life of intellectual endeavor. To their credit, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, the brothers who directed the film, do not sentimentalize material that could easily collapse into bathos...