Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dialogue becomes as abstract and apaque as a Berginan film, but through it all the characters prevail. Fitzpatrick instills a morbidly farcical nature into Gustav which culminates in his mimicry of an epileptic seizure to horrify Adolf. Ulin carefully uses his entire body to express the helpless frustration of a man crippled physically and spiritually...
...eighth largest American gasoline retailer, an nounced that it was getting out of the credit-card business altogether. After April 15, Arco gas stations will accept neither its own blue-and-gray cards, which are held by more than 3 million people, nor those of Visa, American Express or other credit companies. Industry experts predict that other big gasoline retailers will eventually drop out of or cut back on the credit business. The most widely held cards now used are those of Amoco (7 million) and Exxon (6.5 million...
Tough talk from new friends wanted to express an even stronger and closer cooperation and community of views, in order to affirm our presence on the world stage and to enhance the importance of Europe." So declared French President FranÇois Mitterrand at the conclusion of a two-day meeting with his neighbor, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Clad in dark, diplomatic blue as they sat under the crystal chandeliers of the Elysee's Salle des Fetes, the two leaders were explaining the unusual eight-point "Franco-German declaration" that capped their summit in Paris last week...
...melody? Then Faith must sing it again--now translated into English--while alone in the bathtub, choked up by pain which is merely cheapened by rhyme. These banal songs are not merely the underpinnings of the sensibilities of these characters, but, sadly, the only form in which they can express themselves. Even when she's not singing. Faith utters profoundly empty phrases such as. "You helped me grow from a girl into a woman... I sang all the music but I forgot the words...
...scathing criticism for writing the preface to a book that essentially denied the existence of the Holocaust. The resulting scandal obscured the fact the Chomsky disagreed with the book's thesis: rather, like a modern day John Stuart Mill, he felt he was affirming the author's right to express himself freely. But even those who grasped those motives found it abhorrent that Chomsky could associate himself at all with such repugnant revisionism...