Word: homegrown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more plausible threat is that of Sandinista-sponsored subversion. The democratic governments of the region are understandably nervous that the Sandinistas will seek to export their own revolution. "The Central American countries don't dislike the Sandinistas because of their Soviet connections, but because of their connections with homegrown radicals," says a senior U.S. diplomat...
...Allen's self-deprecation is an earnest message which few have made, either in the 1960s or the 1970s. That message celebrates neither the endless experimentation and rebellion of the one decade nor the untrammelled complacency of the other. Rather, the way in which the movie extols those homegrown verities that Hollywood has long patronized as bourgeois earns Hannah and Her Sisters its status as a cultural landmark...
...home gardeners pore over seed catalogs and boast of homegrown salads; she knows that "Nature, far from being on your side, is actively against you, attacking with bugs, molds, rot, cankers, neighboring dogs, raccoons, skunks, porcupines, drought, torrential rains, 'black' frosts, snow heaves, winter- kill. And I cannot think that the satisfaction derived is in the results, however beautiful or tasty . . . The fact is that gardening, more than most of our other activities except sometimes love-making, confronts us with the inexplicable...
Underlying Nixon's rationale is a fervent if hard-to-prove belief that virtually all the revolutionaries in South Viet Nam were agents of North Viet Nam. He rejects the idea that there was any significant homegrown dissent, any genuine civil war. Yet some of the evidence he adduces indicates the opposite: the fact that North Viet Nam imprisoned erstwhile South Vietnamese guerrillas suggests that these dissidents were viewed as dangerous nationalists. In justifying his claim that he "won the war" but that Congress lacked the will to honor its commitments and so "lost the peace," Nixon contends that...
Siskel: "Good evening and welcome to possibly the most exciting and important show we've ever done. We are devoting the entire program to one devastating series of films, a homegrown product that had to be exported to France before it gained its deserved recognition in this country. I'm speaking of course of the recent rerelease of all 13 parts of that American Gross-Out Gothic, Friday the Thirteenth...