Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dallying film becomes rejuvenated. Although Bancroft must combat a simple script, her throaty voice, and earthy no-nonsense approach to living and dying, make her character a truly endearing woman. In her small hospital room, she watches the Knicks, reads about the labor movement and encourages her nurse to fight for a contract...
...matter how glorious, is not enough. New ideas are a snap to disparage ("Where's the beef?"), but good new ideas are essential. "The shoe is on the Democratic foot," says Historian James MacGregor Burns. "The party must carry through the current process of realignment and formulate and fight for a clear, comprehensive alternative to Reagan rule." -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Robert Ajemian/Washington and Kenneth W. Bantu/New York, with other bureaus
This was a good year to be an incumbent, and only three of the 29 Senators running for re-election were defeated. A few others had to fight. James Exon, 63, the Nebraska Democrat, won a tough race against Nancy Hoch, 48, an earnest, moderate Republican and one of nine women who challenged incumbents-all unsuccessfully. Contesting an open seat in Texas, Republican Phil Gramm, 42, badly beat Liberal Lloyd Doggett...
Adams also criticized the government of Irish Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald as a "small-potato republic mimicking its British imperialist masters." Thatcher and FitzGerald, who have been cooperating closely in the fight against I.R.A. terrorism, are scheduled to meet later this month to discuss the continuing problems that plague their mutual border...
Stani and Paulina are crazy for each other. He (Pirotr Lysak) is a young Polish prisoner of war, and she (Hanna Schygulla) is a middle-aged German housewife running her husband's grocery store while he goes off to fight for the Führer, but propriety be damned-they can't and don't keep their hands to themselves. They neck furiously as a young customer enters the store. Stani squats behind the counter and strokes Paulina's thigh while foraging for another customer's potatoes. Everybody in town knows about them: Paulina...