Word: flowed
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Just a year earlier, when America blazed with celebrations for the 100th birthday of the Statue of Liberty, Reagan had seemed the most popular President in years. But after a steady flow of congressional hearings on the Iran-contra arms scandal, of war threats in the Persian Gulf, of huge budgetary and trade deficits, of a declining dollar and a crashing stock market, his own stock fell. A CBS/New York Times poll at the end of November reported that 45% of the citizenry approved of the way Reagan was doing his job, down from 52% only six weeks earlier...
...written, and Waterston reaches the heights of shiftiness at precisely those moments when he most openly proclaims his emotions. But all these people are relentlessly and statically articulate, especially when they are obscuring motives from themselves and one another. The humor of their humorlessness is often Chekhovian, and the flow of Allen's camera and cutting, together with the elegance of Cinematographer Carlo Di Palma's light, grants them a certain grace and dignity. But sometimes the members of this precious circle are too glibly elucidated; other times they are backed away from silently. In September, Allen is sketching when...
Despite a continuing flow of arms from Moscow, Western diplomats suspect that the Soviets are not happy with their ally. When Mengistu visited Moscow in April, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev cautioned him to "proceed from realities and not outrun stages of development." Politburo Member Lev Zaikov was reportedly blunter when he visited Addis Ababa in September...
From whom ideas flow as from a font...
...think so. Instead, the Democrats and Republicans twice took the stage separately for half-hour discussions on foreign and domestic policy. It must have been in the fine print of its full-page newspaper ads where the network fessed up to the fact that questions and answers would flow only among candidates of the same party...