Word: frequently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kemner sessions verge on terminal boredom. Some jurors take notes as the trial drones on. But all too often eyes glaze over. Yawns are frequent. One alternate juror appears to doze from time to time. "They do well to stay awake," concedes the plaintiffs' attorney, Rex Carr. "This isn't the kind of stuff that keeps you on the edge of your seat." The numbing routine continues five days a week, six hours a day, with an hour out for lunch and brief midmorning and midafternoon breaks, plus a Christmas-New Year recess and a two-week summer vacation...
Three passions consume the roiling romantic soul of Herbert I. ("Hi") McDonnough (Nicolas Cage). He has a fondness, though not really much of a talent, for robbing convenience stores. He loves his wife Edwina (Holly Hunter), a police officer he met on his frequent vacations at the local prison. And he shares her desire to create little baby His and Eds. Says Hi, in the daft and plangent narration that sets the tone for this terrific comedy: "Every day we kept a child out of the world was a day he might later regret having missed...
...those willing, you're not alone. More and more Americans are beginning to lend credibility to what they once would have considered the far-out world of psychic wonders, according to several of the psychic readers who frequent the fair, which is sponsored by the Healers' Resource Center. Consequently, activities like the psychic fair are growing in number across the nation...
...four-day student occupation of Seoul's Konkuk University. Though radical leaders contend that police planted the provocative materials, many students champion unification with the North. Says a student-union president: "The North and South are one people. Unification is a nationalistic goal, not an ideological one." Adds a frequent demonstrator: "Unification of the fatherland is our main goal...
...example, permits dissent and has a vocal opposition that includes the Communist Party, which holds 27 seats in the national parliament, or Diet. But Koreans have no such democratic outlets. Kim Dae Jung, the country's most famous dissident, is barred from all political activity, and has been under frequent house arrest since returning from U.S. exile in 1985. Even left-wing books and pamphlets are officially forbidden...