Word: holding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...humiliating -- a betrayal of modern technological thought. The system of travel abroad is humiliating despite all the promises made to simplify it. The gates should be opened wide for anyone who wants to leave forever, with the exception of the few connected with security work. It is humiliating to hold people by force. You can't call those who leave enemies. And if they haven't insulted the homeland in any way, they should be able to come back to visit or for good. Why shouldn't all citizens of the U.S.S.R. be given a foreign-travel passport good...
...more frequently nude than necessary, Miracolo is nonetheless a fitting tribute to what was freshest and most original in early 20th century art. Recalling it, audiences may well end as Cinderella does, despite her tribulations, in Into The Woods. Once on the throne, she wants nothing more than to hold another festival...
...means their testimony cannot be used against them in a trial. But since the four are charged with conspiracy, each defendant has the right to use statements of his coconspirators that might show his own innocence. Last week Gesell ruled that the way out of this dilemma is to hold four trials. A jury thus could listen to immunized testimony that might help the defendant on trial in one case, while this testimony could not be used in the trial of the man who gave...
...scene was a curious mixture of high drama and slapstick satire. Michael Dukakis, only hours away from the climactic triumph of his primary season, tries to hold a private midnight meeting with Jesse Jackson. His Secret Service limousine takes him to a back door of the Hyatt Wilshire in Los Angeles, where Jackson is staying. Reporters, alerted to the rendezvous, race through the hotel, but Dukakis evades them. Jackson's suite is a mess. As aides dispose of the remains of a chicken-and-greens dinner, Secret Service agents sweep swarming journalists from the corridor...
...Yonsei University in downtown Seoul last week. Their goal: to accompany an unofficial 13-member delegation to the "truce village" of Panmunjom, 30 miles away, in the Demilitarized Zone. There a matching delegation of 13 from Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang, the Communist North Korean capital, waited to hold "reunification talks...