Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women's resentment on that issue alone was dramatized in San Antonio at a lunch at which Republican Senator Robert Packwood was praised for his opposition to a constitutional amendment banning abortion. Some women suddenly found themselves weeping over baskets of fried chicken, as they expressed relief that except for a few still stormy skirmishes, the Supreme Court's decision upholding freedom of choice probably means that wrenching battle is finished...
...would have saddled the government with the task of redefining and reforming the nation's penal law so as to define the various conditions under which capital punishment would be applied. It would also have given Britain the dubious distinction of being the only country in Western Europe, except Turkey, to execute criminals...
...plot with "formula" written all over it, yet director Lewis Carlino successfully works Class into an enjoyable and believable two hours. Much of the credit goes to the actors, who, despite some painfully stagy lapses, sustain comic realism throughout. Except for Bisset (whose education of Jonathan is so captivating that you never wonder why she's lavishing it on a 19-year-old) the adult characters are largely unconvincing stereotypes, but the academy inmates are almost all outstanding. Lowe, fresh off the set of The Outsiders, and film-newcomer McCarthy work well as Vernon's dynamic duo, constructing a close...
...make people believe you don't have to be a tooth-gnashing, vampiric drug creature of the night to say something important. That same attitude, that same image, has been coming from one particular area of rock for the last 15 years, but it hasn't done anything except produce casualties...
...Institute. "Most of the Whole Earth audience has accepted computers, more than any other age group. They've been using technology to mess with their consciousness since they were teenagers. I don't see a tremendous difference between the technology of drugs and the technology of computers, except that drugs are self-limiting and computers appear...