Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...considerably, the former impassioned rebel who, twenty years earlier-as a sixteen-year old member of the Irish Republican Army-was arrested in Liverpool for the possession of explosives, had long dispensed with his plans for blowing up British battleships. Instead of violent action, he turned to art to express his beliefs...
...gang of cheerful, extremely humane eccentries who live by their own particular moral code. Acutely aware of Ireland's volatile political atmosphere, they (with a few exceptions), nevertheless refuse to obsess themselves with politics. Several of them differ in race, nationality, class, and sexual preference, yet they express little prejudice. When the British prisoner enters their happy abide, the whorehouse tenants-to the outrage of the I.R.A. captors treat him with warmth and sympathy, their simple compassion out-weighs the national and religious biases that perpetuate...
...faculty may express its dissatisfaction is by approving the [affirmative action] report and not sending us names and grades," Helm said...
Most actors worry about what winds up on the cutting-room floor after a film has been shot. Albert Finney, 44 (Tom Jones, Murder on the Orient Express), got the worst over with first. For his role as Multi-millionaire Daddy Warbucks in the film Annie, directed by veteran John Huston, Finney had his sandy hair shorn, lock, shock and cowlick. Said he afterward: "I've heard that the first thing a woman notices about a man is his hair." Finney, who will get $1 million for five months of shooting, need not worry about such a hairbrained notion...
Vogel was the only one of the three panelists to express pessimism over the U.S. public's ability to recognize and respond to the depth of the challenge posed by Japanese economic power on the U.S.'s position in the world. He cited Japan's recent surge in shipping and in the semi-conductor industry as examples of its increasing preeminence...