Word: focused
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NINETEEN--EIGHTY seven is not the international year of the child, but moviemakers obviously aren't aware of this. This year has marked the release of a slew of films that focus on pre-teens, such as My Life as A Dog, Russkies and Big Shots. Now John Boorman, director of The Emerald Forest, gets into the act with his own tale of growing up, the semi-autobiographical film Hope and Glory...
...Morrone chose not to focus on his team's laudable effort at the post-game press conference. Instead, his remarks centered on the number of foreign players on the Crimson...
Three heroines, living in London and in their mid-40s when the decade of the 1980s dawns, provide a focus for Drabble's tumultuous plot: Liz Headleand, twice married and a successful psychotherapist; Alix Bowen, ditto and a believer in socially useful work like teaching English literature to female criminals; Esther Breuer, unmarried and a dilettantish specialist in the early Italian Renaissance. Although they have taken different paths, Liz, Alix and Esther share a long friendship and common bonds dating back to their student days at Cambridge in the 1950s. "These three women," Drabble notes, "it will readily and perhaps...
...palpable. In Piedra Labrada, a village in Cuscatlan, guardsmen opposed a meeting to form an agricultural cooperative. The get-together took place anyway. The next morning, an 18-year-old boy who had attended was found dead. Only three people turned out for the next meeting. Human rights groups focus on atrocities by the armed forces, but the F.M.L.N. is also guilty of abuses. In April two men in the village of La Periquera were executed by the guerrillas for failing to pay a "war tax." In another town, the F.M.L.N. announced it would execute the mayor for supposed complicity...
...were left far behind. The worst performers among the high-growth funds included 44 Wall Street Equity, which has lost more than half its value since Oct. 15, and Security Omni and Leverage Fund, which each lost at least 38% of their assets. Many of the "sector funds," which focus on a single industry, also turned out to be a bad choice. Funds specializing in leisure-time goods, oil-service companies, electronics and automotive products fell an average...