Word: friendshipness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Silliness. Friendship. Escape. Doorways in the sky. A little girl. A big mouse. Crimson skies. Blue clouds. Liposuction. Love. Death. Trump. Disney. The usual things...
Related to the issue of national strength is the issue of international purpose. How active is our friendship for liberty supposed to be? HUD Secretary Jack Kemp sometimes gives the impression that if he were ever to become President, he would show up with megaphone and pompons wherever in the world there was a pro-democracy rally. Such enthusiasm strikes most conservatives as suspicious -- liberal, even. If we expect the world to mind its own business, we should mind ours...
Breaking his silence, the still unapprehended Honasan told TIME during a brief phone call, "We do not wish to spurn our friendship with the American people. But I believe it is morally wrong for Ambassador Platt to take sides because it will mean more bloodshed." Saving democracy may be its own reward, but for the U.S., this rescue could have long-term costs. Now that Washington has used force to prop up the Aquino regime, will anything less do the next time a threat arises...
...reunion of the Burt Pack: Burt Reynolds is the voice of Charlie, Loni Anderson is the moll Flo, the exuberantly flustered Dom DeLuise is Charlie's pal Itchy. All Dogs dawdles a bit, but it offers the requisite charm and a poignant moral: some things, like friendship and honor, are worth dying...
...Talking has inspired plenty of retrospective wisdom. It came out at the right time of year, when its only competition was heavy dramas. It hits yuppie moviegoers where they live: in the narrow margin between careers and parenthood. It carries echoes of When Harry Met Sally in the loving friendship of a thirtysomething mom (Kirstie Alley) and the cabdriver (John Travolta) who moonlights as baby-sitter. It has Hollywood's favorite premise, the fish out of water -- or, here, fetus out of womb. For the main character is a talking baby, in the worldly wise-guy voice...