Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paradoxical symbolism of Jerusalem flickers all through its commercial life. Just across the street from the Damascus Gate, near the East Jerusalem bus station, which still displays signs announcing the nonexistent express bus to the Jordanian capital of Amman, the British Bank of the Middle East stands apparently abandoned. Its front windows are covered by rusty metal shutters, the shutters covered with Arab handbills. "The Israelis wanted the bank to stay open," says an Arab wise in local charades, "but then it might be closed down in all Arab countries. So the manager remains here to do business...
...show that Chris can have just as much fun with a man as she did with a woman. Towne (who also wrote and produced the film) has her express delight with her lover's penis, and beg to hold it while he urinates. Look folks. Towne seems to be saying, heterosexuals can be kinky too. After the emotional depth of the lesbian relationship, this sounds suspiciously apologetic--as apologetic as Chris when she reluctantly explains to her new man that Tory was more than a friend...
Pursuing the same soft line, Reagan made a personal appearance at a White House meeting of agricultural editors and farm-state Congressmen to express sympathy for farmers caught in a squeeze between sagging agricultural prices and high interest rates. Said the President: "Many of our farmers must be wondering if the sky has not fallen. U.S. agriculture is in its third straight year of economic recession." He promised vigorous efforts to increase farm exports...
Crimson: You express some optimism about the Left here, what do you see for the future...
While 40 members of the Cambridge-based Spartacus Youth League (SYL) picketed a Marine Corps recruiting visit to the campus yesterday, the Harvard Conservative Club held a small counter-demonstration to express support for the Marines...