Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plot of Rockey III serves as the only new addition. The movie begins with Rocky as a complacent and worshipped world champion; he lives in a mansion, drives a Model T around his grounds, and appears as a spokesman for American Express. Into this halycon world enters Clubber Lang (Mr. T), an enormous fighter who sports a mohawk. While Balboa runs around in designer suits, Lang really runs, getting in increasingly better shape as he climbs the boxing world's challenge ladder. Rocky agrees to fight Lang, taking on his former rival Apollo Creed as coach...
...love in my tummy"). With his sure instinct for slick commercialization, he was a key shaper of the success of such pop singers and groups as Donna Summer, Mac Davis, the Village People and Kiss. An occasional co-producer of expertly hyped movies as well (Midnight Express, The Deep), Bogart garnered 60 gold and 24 platinum records...
Sorting out the potential winners from the probable losers will not be easy. In the heated struggle for customers, banks, savings and loans and stockbrokers are jousting with new competitors, such as money-market funds and diversified financial-services companies like Sears, Roebuck and American Express. The result has been a flood of novel investment and savings devices. Moreover, there has grown up a cacophony of conflicting claims that is bewildering investors. Even many money advisers in banks, brokerage houses and other financial institutions are having a difficult time keeping up with the myriad of different investment possibilities that have...
...casual conversation, emotional stuffing is lent to words by inflection and gesture: the innocent phrase, "Thanks a lot," is frequently a vehicle for heaping servings of irritation. Traffic in opinion-heavy language is universal simply because most people, as C.S. Lewis puts it, are "more anxious to express their approval and disapproval of things than to describe them...
...absence of values such as those expressed by Mr. Pattullo, most gays and lesbians would neither feel "condemned to a homosexual existence," The very words chosen to express these ideas are both cruel and contribute to the self-hatred many homosexuals actively feel, and the rest of us work constantly to overcome. In addition, the less controlled element of society find it all to easy to use such statements not to support us (after all, if we did have a disability, we would deserve at least decent and moral treatment) and to justify violence. Both police and medical personnel routinely...