Word: foraying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heat, humidity and insects were all too familiar to Harrison Ford, 43, though his latest foray into the jungle is a far swat from the whip-cracking $ heroics of Indiana Jones. Reunited with Director Peter Weir (Witness), Ford is in tiny Belize on the Caribbean to star in The Mosquito Coast, based on the Paul Theroux novel. His character, Allie Fox, moves to the wilds of Central America to start his own civilization. As foil to the atheist protagonist, Butterfly McQueen, 75, plays a native who attributes everything to God. Fox "is the kind of American who feels his opportunities...
Admittedly, some students are less than enthusiastic about the dining halls' foray into the wonderful world of fast food. Citing the high sodium and fat content which accompanies many fried foods, student consumers fear the nutritional quality of institutionalized cooking...
Back in Manila, the capital, a different kind of spectacle was unfolding. President Ferdinand Marcos, 68, an ailing autocrat possessed of formidable political powers, made an election foray of his own from Malacanang Palace to address 7,000 longshoremen on the city's South Pier. Everything was carefully choreographed: a stream of local entertainers kept the crowd's attention until Marcos, looking drawn, tired and weak, was escorted to the podium. The President joked about rumors that he had suffered a physical collapse, and dismissed reports of his obvious ill health as so much "black propaganda." Wife Imelda...
...success and talent, Spielberg's weaknesses are prominently displayed in this foray beyond the safe climes of thrill-a-minute B-movie homages and suburban kiddie flicks. He is a craftsman, not an auteur, and one hopes his artistic imperialism will not cause him to stomp all over Anglo-Saxon culture's other golems...
...Crimson has every right to express its liberal opinions straight out of the Dark Ages. But you should draw the line at deliberate insults aimed at individual students or at attempts to distort the facts so as to ridicule undergraduate organizations. I found your latest foray in the former category, in which you referred to me as "SyKahane," deeply offensive. Meier Kahane is a militant racist who has called for the expulsion or extermination of Arab Moslems in Israel. As a Moslem and a national from the Middle East, I find the label of Kahane comparable to referring...