Word: expounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rocky-ten Oscar nominations and Best Picture of 1976 Award-was more than Stallone could handle. "I resented people confusing me with Rocky," he says now. "I wore white suits with flowers on the side. Rocky isn't very bright, so I went on talk shows to expound on things I knew nothing about. Rocky's decent, so I indulged in dime-store humor. I was a walking whoopee cushion...
...accomplishments, it would be a successful melodrama, no more. It gains more stature by introducing the politics and history of the time it's set in--not in an obtrusive, doctrinaire way, but as a distant backdrop which only infrequently comes into full focus. Wilson doesn't so much expound the politics of America during World War II--the confusion on the left, the economic uncertainty, the awe at America's slowly unflexing muscles--as weave it into his characters' histories. At great length, with much defensive joking and shuffling of feet. Matt tells the story of his family...
...Opening exercises in Tercentenary theater. The last time you will all assemble in one place before Commencement, as each of the speakers will surely remind you. A real live opportunity to hear the pillars of the Harvard establishment expound on Harvard. Presidents Bok and Horner will welcome you to the company of not-yet-educated men and women. Dean Rosovsky will bring his dry and sometimes stinging wit along to give an address. (His address, by the way, is University Hall...
...Reporter-Researcher Jeanne-Marie North taught English in Medellin, Colombia, and Spanish at a small college in Illinois. Education Writer Kenneth Pierce was a lecturer in humanities at the University of Chicago for three years. "In those days I was torn between teaching and journalism," he says. "I would expound on Aristotle's Poetics in the morning and interview vice-squad detectives as a LIFE reporter in the afternoon." Civia Tamarkin of TIME'S Midwest bureau was a high school English teacher for two years in Benton Harbor, Mich. Indeed, the story itself was first suggested by Tamarkin...
...Matsushita, 85, has long been an outspoken exception. The son of a poor rice dealer, he founded the Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. as a three-person shop in 1918, built it into one of the world's largest producers of consumer electronic goods, and used his prestige to expound opinions on everything from nuclear power (he favors it) to the businessman's role as the servant of society. In 1973 he retired, but only to become more active in other fields. His earnest, upbeat magazine PHP-Peace and Happiness through Prosperity-is Japan's largest-selling monthly...