Word: fervidly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brothers. That burned in my memory. Then the incredible thing happened: over the dead bodies of those Marines, the United States of America sent our best missiles to Iranians who sponsored the killing. I never got that out of my head. How could that happen?" For a journalist, such fervid personal involvement might seem overwrought, not to say unprofessional. "People say I'm not cool," Rather responds. "Well, I am not a Buddha. I am not a robot. On my best days, I am a thinking reporter...
There is a tendency in the fervid national catharsis over the Iran arms scandal to treat the past six years of Ronald Reagan's presidency as a kind of hallucination...
...director. The process unnerved some of Arena's troupe, but the result confirms Lyubimov's reputation as one of the world's great directors. Crime and Punishment is a startling visual essay, awhirl with energy, ablaze with ideas, at once a devout invocation of Christian hope and a fervid warning against the moral "arithmetic" by which statesmen, as much as felons, balance evil deeds against happy consequences...
Chalk it up to the fervid atmosphere created by the nation's concern over drug abuse, but some of the suggestions are getting a little wild. Attorney General Edwin Meese last week urged employers to help in the drug campaign by undertaking "surveillance of problem areas such as locker rooms, parking lots and nearby taverns if necessary." On the other side of the field, a group of San Diego civil libertarians who call themselves Question Authority have put together a three-minute telephone tape offering advice on how to disguise drug traces in urine. "Two large tablespoons of bleach (poured...
TELEVISION. After a numbing 110 hours of often fervid debate, the Senate passed a bill to sell the country's oldest and biggest state-owned television network, TF1. If the National Assembly approves, France will become the first European country to privatize a public TV network. The measure, charged Communist Senator Charles Lederman, is "the same as if we auctioned off Versailles, the Louvre and the Comedie Francaise." Culture and Communications Minister Francois Leotard vehemently disagreed. "TF1 is badly run," he said. "It does not compete with foreign programs and is absolutely incapable of exporting its own productions...