Word: freed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Broderick looks no more than 17. Fierstein, who was the star as well as the author, kept telling him to hurry his lines. Broderick resisted, and the two yelled and fought. "Harvey used to push me against the wall - he's strong as a bull - but it freed me up a lot as an actor to play against him. He has a nice freedom on stage." Says Fierstein: "You couldn't get him to rush a line. He had to do it his way. That's his star quality. He is a complete and total personality." Indeed...
Will Han Solo be freed from the carbonite in which he has been imprisoned...
...partners-along with Mobil and Standard Oil of California-in Aramco, which produces most of Saudi Arabia's oil. All four had been paying the official $34 OPEC price for the Saudi crude, even though cheaper supplies were available elsewhere. Now the March price cut has freed them of that burden. So far, however, analysts have seen few immediate signs of improvement in the overall industry outlook. Says William Randol of First Boston, an investment banking firm: "This year's first-quarter earnings will be a disaster...
...time of his times, Norman Mailer has repeated his conviction that making history is preferable to reading it. In his influential essay "The White Negro" (1957), Mailer turned the emerging social type known as the hipster into a daring pioneer adrift in "the perpetual climax of the present," freed of all moral guides and codes of conduct except the thrumming of his own nervous system. The author specifically disavowed any precedents for this existential frame of mind: "If the ethic reduces to Know Thyself and Be Thyself, what makes it radically different from Socratic moderation with its stern conservative respect...
...toll is high: the risk of drug dependence is vastly greater than with snorting, and no less than with injecting. As cocaine is just one distilled component of the coca leaf, cocaine free-base comes from carrying the refining process one ill-advised step further: the active drug is "freed" from its "base," a hydrochloride salt. Extraction techniques involve dissolving the cocaine and adding chemical catalysts-sodium hydroxide and ether or, more prudently, baking soda-that cause the free-base to separate. The precipitate, about half a gram from each gram of regular coke, is filtered or skimmed...