Word: foreshadowings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These inward-looking questions are not exactly the sweeping ideological issues which would foreshadow a major re-evaluation of Japan's global role. In fact, the Socialists are more isolationist than the Liberal Democrats--they even support a cancellation of Japan's security arrangement with...
These sentences foreshadow nearly everything to come in Spartina, although just how cleverly Casey tips his hand does not become clear until much later. Pierce's family once mattered in this region of Rhode Island, but not any longer. A succession of bad breaks has "squeezed him up Pierce Creek to an acre of scrub," where he lives in a ramshackle house with his wife May and two teenage sons and scrabbles a living as a fisherman. "He'd had a plan: by age 40 he would be master of a ship. Here he was at age 40-plus...
While most of the attention is focusing on appointments to prestigious positions in the White House and Cabinet, many of the Administration's new policies will be shaped by a less visible layer of sub-Cabinet officials. Bush's choices for these little-known but powerful posts could foreshadow his decisions on urgent issues that are certain to crop up over the next four years. What to watch...
That shameful act merely proved to foreshadow the stranglehold Jackson has on Blacks. There is not a Black politician willing to outright challenge Jackson these days. King's former aides have also fallen into line. Jackson has proven that not only can he get the Black vote, but that he can also direct...
These stark words foreshadow the next 29 years in the life of Nelson Mandela, the spiritual leader of South Africa's black majority, who is now serving a life sentence for sabotage and plotting revolution. Starring Danny Glover as Nelson and Alfre Woodard as his wife Winnie, Mandela, an HBO movie premiering Sept. 20 at 8 p.m. EDT, traces the couple's unfinished struggle against institutionalized racism in South Africa. It is also the melancholy love story of Winnie, now 50, and Nelson, 69, who wed during a break in his trial for treason and honeymooned while...