Word: hares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...council uses the Hare system of proportional representation method to tabulate election results...
Plenty, written by David Hare and directed by Fred Schepisi, traces the degeneration of Susan Traherne (Streep) from her work with the French Resistance in 1943 to her desertion of her husband almost 20 years later. Susan--part Joan of Archetype, part loony from Loonyville--is a bitter romantic who never got over her teenage crush on reckless idealism. During the war there was excitement to spare in her view of the British as parachuting | angels of mercy. Her one great moment of idealistic passion--in a tatty French hotel room with an exhausted soldier-hero--is the memory that...
...monotonous meeting? Do not doodle, and refrain from "conference table tics, such as bending paper clips into endless combinations or rolling bits of paper into tiny balls," Baldrige advises. Preparing a menu for the office Christmas party? Keep it simple and "save the snakemeat canapes and the blanquette of hare for your personal parties...
...preliminary round of voting for marshals runs tomorrow and Friday. It uses the so-called Hare System, where voters rank all the candidates by preference...
...short, despite some fine performances by Streep, Ullman and Sting, Plenty is the fall season's most bitter disappointment. Had Schepisi and Hare been willing to sacrifice the artsy elements in favour of a more straightforward, biographical format, Plenty would have been more than enough...