Word: formality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...though, the director received free range of both from Pu Yi's successors, who regard his final, harmless-dodderer incarnation as an exemplary triumph for their system. The result is a film epic in length (almost three hours), vision (the reimagining of a lost and exotic world) and imagery (formal and glowing). Yet at its center is an anti-epic figure, inarticulate and victimized. The movie must therefore depend for its emotional power on a force rarely applied to the large-scale cinema: irony of the most delicate variety...
After two seasons of straight losses the Department of Athletics implemented a formal media ban on coverage of varsity games...
...Washington the urbane and sardonic Senate minority leader may seem like the George Sanders of the Republican race; out in the rest of the country, he comes off like Will Rogers. As he returns to Russell, Kans., this week to make his formal announcement, Dole once again will be tugging at his hometown roots. Arguing that all the Republican candidates are pretty much alike on matters of policy, Dole is running mainly on his newly minted persona -- softer, less biting. The risk of such a strategy is that he will become known as the candidate with the split personality...
Although no formal invitation has been extended, the University made overtures to Soviet officials several weeks ago after Gorbachev announced plans to meet with President Reagan in Washington on December 7. News reports this week said that visit, which was originally to be limited to a brief two or three days in Washington, might be extended to as long as six days in order to permit the Soviet leader to tour other parts of the country...
Though he only has formal headquarters in threestates, Illinois, Iowa and New Hampshire, and hasraised the smallest amount of money of the sixcandidates, Jackson is ranked first or second inalmost every poll of the Democratic candidates...