Word: faired
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although he faces a possible two-year sentence and $10,000 fine on each of four charges, he betrayed little concern. "I am innocent of anything," Nofziger declared, "and so I assume that a jury, being a typical fair American jury, will find that to be the case...
...progressive people actually elected sometimes is quite another. One can no doubt legitimately disagree with the underlying political analysis about the makeup and projected reactions of the alumni/ae electorate, but one would be hard-pressed to label the analysis as "racism." Failing consensus, it was decided that the appropriate, fair and democratic thing to do was to put the matter to a vote of the membership. That was done. Isaac is on the final slate...
...freedom. I often look at Israel as the ultimate final solution Europeans found to their inability to deal with anti-Semitism. Colonizing Jews on a strip of desert and cutting them off in a hostile region from the European world they helped create is not my idea of fair or wise. Nonetheless I am attracted by the idea of a strong and powerful majority Jewish state. It gives Jews across the world a sense of identity and courage...
...this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th fcentury. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...
Though Screenwriters Tim Kazurinsky and Denise DeClue try hard to play fair, For Keeps? still trumpets a tattered teen-movie message that only the young think clearly and feel deeply. Darcy's mom (Miriam Flynn) does get to display some wistful despair -- "Sooner or later, everybody leaves," she says, referring to family and pals as well as lovers, "that's what love's all about" -- but in general she is a snooty shrew. Director John G. Avildsen (Joe, Rocky, Neighbors) relies mostly on his young star to bring passion and balance to the piece. And Ringwald, in a hospital scene...