Word: humors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While he talked and laughed comfortably, Ortega found no humor in what he described as the "greater pressures" now being exerted on Nicaragua by the Reagan Administration. "I think that the U.S. is attempting to create conditions for a major offensive on a military order," he said. "You can feel it in the air." Ortega's warnings of a pending Yanqui invasion are not new. Nicaraguan leaders usually interpret any major contra move as a prelude to U.S. intervention. But the message from Washington has grown more menacing in recent weeks, and while some political analysts view the attacks...
This is the humor of an outraged moralist, a writer who takes his corruption and evil seriously. Much contemporary satire gets by on contrived conspiracies, abstract villainy and stock victims. The Building offers an older and more enduring view of human nature. Its characters get no points for race, religion, origin, social position or physical condition. Sin is apportioned without prejudice. The only salvation is madness or art, which may be the same thing. One tenant lectures to cockroaches; a painter cannot turn off his vision: "If he stops it will continue to come, escaping through his head into...
...child's letters to God, written by Celie, a poor black girl in early-20th century Georgia. Celie's story is one both of injustice, at the fists of black men, and of emotional regeneration, at the caressing hands of black women. The demotic narrative style, filled with humor, horror and the obsession to survive, softens Walker's messages: Sisterlove is beautiful, and Men stink. We are inside Celie's head, and for all the tragedies stored there, it is a lovely place to live. It might also seem the perfect spot for Spielberg to visit, since virtually...
Watson's election as captain, an extremely rare occurrence for divers, is testimony to his popularity on the team. "His humor, his attitude... We're going to miss him a lot, an awful lot," Ford said...
...revenge himself on that particular bit of real estate. Big Black is the most violent, yet also the most listenable group of Homestead's recent post-punk crop. Both the songs--especially "The Ugly American"--and the liner notes show a sense of humor long gone from most rock and roll. This EP certainly beats Bing Crosby fists down: a must for anyone who burns Norman Rockwell paintings in his spare time...