Word: give
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that partly to his natural caution, partly to uncertainty about what the news meant, largely to a desire to do or say nothing that might provoke a crackdown in East Germany. As the President put it, "We're handling it in a way where we are not trying to give anybody a hard time." By Friday, though, Bush realized he had badly underplayed a historic event and, in a speech in Texas, waxed more enthusiastic. "I was moved, as you all were, by the pictures," said Bush. He also got in a plug for his forthcoming meeting with Gorbachev...
...virgin, Cecile de Volanges (Fairuza Balk). The older woman is gripped by temporary insanity because she loves the man who intends to marry the adolescent. The vicomte too has his excuses. He is possessed by a passionate nature, the ill effects of which, it is implied, are also temporary. Give the kid some time, and he will probably turn out to be an admirable citizen. Indeed, his second amorous campaign -- to bed a virtuous young wife, Madame de Tourvel (Meg Tilly) -- is not presented as idle and amoral womanizing but as proof of his capacity for authentic emotion...
...animated film takes for granted. Problem is, real life gets in the way. Location shooting is at the whim of weather; special effects can look chintzy onscreen. And actors! They cost the moon, and their bodies aren't elastic enough to perform the comic contortions that Daffy Duck can give you with the wave of an animator's pen. So here's a tip for the '90s, Hollywood: junk the live-action movie. Just make cartoons...
...together in 1985, comes from neighboring Roxbury, where the streets are definitively mean. He has produced all the Kids' records, writes much of their material and commands the instrument work ("All instruments played or programmed by Maurice Starr" reads a large credit on the Hangin' Tough album). His gifts give the Kids a smooth buzz, but his ego increasingly gives them a pain...
Unfortunately, there is a limit to how many transistors can be squeezed onto the surface of a chip. Thus the attraction of micromachines. They give engineers a way to shrink the moving parts of a device rather than trying to shrink its computer controls further. Some experts believe that within the next 25 years micromachinery will do for machines what microelectronics did for electronics. Given the progress over the past quarter-century, that is saying...