Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President defined the U.S. world role as "one that supports change toward greater pluralism in and among societies." Moreover, he said, "that we have the power to destroy other nations does not mean we have a right or a need to control them." Brezhnev continued to be in good humor. Imbibing freely, he told stories about hunting in Siberia and the Georgian Republic for deer, elk and rabbits. "I'm a very good shot," he boasted. His colleagues nodded in agreement, murmuring "Da, pravilno [yes, that's right...
...kind of genre films he appeared in and his low-keyed, naturalistic acting technique. Not by those who, intent on forcing all of life through political metaphors, deplored his rightist politics. It was ordinary moviegoers who sensed the authenticity of the man-that compound of morality, short temper, self-humor and sheer physical energy. They knew that though he had never fired a gun in anger, he had found other ways to live up to his image...
...public ostentation of his time, as well as the private misery. Most of his paintings are condensed sonnets in praise of the middle path, the sober life of the Parisian petite bourgeoisie, especially as embodied in his own household. He is said to have had a chirpy sense of humor, and there is certainly a sly and robust irony in his singeries, or monkey paintings, where hairy little parodies of man play at being painters and connoisseurs...
...injury or no injury, I'm going to add insult to it." Back home in Birmingham, Wife Anthea, a study in gray, feeds her goldfish and solaces herself with boring novels. "Everyone abroad, except me," she complains. "No wonder people ask me, where is my sense of humor...
...signposts plot developments; the meanderings of the ship's pet cat too often precede the alien's attacks. Scott's allusions to other hit movies do not reflect well on his own. Alien features an all-knowing computer called Mother that is no match in humor or malevolence for Hal in 2001. Though the spaceship's interior recalls both 2001 and Star Wars, the audience never learns enough about its array of gadgetry or the overall layout of its various chambers. Alien, like Invasion of the Body Snatchers, also features some nasty extraterrestrial pods, but there...