Word: eves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three-day Bonn summit came on the eve of the opening this week in Geneva of a new round of U.S.-Soviet arms talks devoted specifically to the problems surrounding medium-range missiles. Launched largely at the instigation of NATO's European members, these negotiations will seek to find ways of reducing the numbers of, if not eliminating altogether, the 250 Soviet SS-20s and 350 older SS-4s and SS-5s already trained on Western Europe, and the 572 U.S. Pershing II and cruise missiles scheduled to be deployed by 1983 in West Germany, Britain, Italy, Belgium...
Duehay and members of the city council last night urged all Cambridge residents and students to attend the Thanksgiving Eve service. "I remember when there used to be enormous events, with people from all across Cambridge." Duehay said, stressing the service may not be aimed at any particular denomination...
...dimensions of that love are tested and proved in the course of the play. On the eve of appearing in King Lear, Sir has abdicated the realm of sanity, gone mad before his cue. In the aftermath of an air raid, he has fled into the center of town and shredded his clothes in a driving rain. Hospitalized, he releases himself and bombards his way into his own dressing room. What Norman is confronted with is a shuddering, sobbing hulk of a man who cannot remember the first lines of a play he has performed 426 times...
Indeed, so powerful has that image been that one sometimes forgets how splendid he has been as a character actor. The military martinet of Fort Apache, the cold-eyed outlaw of Once Upon a Time in the West, even the hilariously befuddled herpetologist "Hopsy" Pike of The Lady Eve-they all light up in one's memory as the spirit that animated them flashes in Fonda's eyes. Without raising his voice he gives a bravura performance as he moves from depressed withdrawal to momentary rages, from the struggle to express affection to the struggle not to express...
...Jesse James (1939) and The Grapes of Wrath (1940), Fonda is virtually cornered into renegade political activism; a corrupt System flays him, but under the vulnerable Midwestern skin is a species of American hero. In his best comedy, The Lady Eve (1941), Fonda is the perfect patsy for a con woman, Barbara Stanwyck?so perfect that she falls in love with the sap. Watching Fonda writhe under Stanwyck's bogus endearments remains one of the high delights of screwball farce...