Word: gravest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gravest threat facing the world today is Soviet hegemonism. We in China believe that with the direct military invasion of Afghanistan. Soviet hegemonism entered a new stage...
...directors dedicated to the protection and preservation of the Soviet system. The euphemism for this imperative is "security." In Russian the word means literally absence of danger. Today, all the instincts of the old men in the Kremlin must tell them that the Soviet system is in the gravest danger in Poland, as indeed it is and deserves to be. Their instincts probably also tell them that sooner or later they will have to intervene, that they have a right to do so, and that they will be able to get away with...
...countless TV sets throughout Spain: Guardia Civil Lieut. Colonel Antonio Tejero Molina standing in the Cortes last Feb. 23, holding the Spanish government, and the nation, at gunpoint. Tejero and his fellow military conspirators in the coup attempt were soon arrested, and Spain's young democracy survived its gravest challenge...
...Jiang Qing delivered an impassioned defense of the Cultural Revolution as a correct policy, approved by both Mao and Chou. Jiang claimed that Chou even sanctioned the attack on former Head of State Liu Shaoqi, which is held now to be one of the Gang of Four's gravest crimes. Then she defiantly challenged the court to execute her publicly at a mass rally in Peking's vast Tiananmen Square...
Still, after all is said about the brilliance of the performances and the direction and Michael Chapman's cinematography, one can only be left with the gravest reservations about Scorsese's purpose. Raging Bull is not a movie about people, it is a movie about beasts. This conception of man, too obsessive to allow any alternative notion or any modification, would seem to be as limited at one extreme as Rocky was at the other. Now, it's perfectly all right to believe that we are nothing but animals; but if you really believe it, go live in a barn...