Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ideal scene would be one in which I got to hand something to Robert Urich--just so my grandmother can see," said Justine Serino, a Boston actress...
...integrity and a lustrous reputation as the nation's truest warriors. With just 196,000 members, the Marine Corps regards itself as the elite military service, though it is technically an arm of the Navy. But what most distinguishes the Marine Corps, forging the powerful esprit and the ideal of Semper Fidelis, is the basic training...
...center of town. The U.S. had a similar gripe about the Soviets' suggested American embassy site high atop the Lenin Hills. By the end of the decade, however, the Soviets had accepted Mount Alto; the high ground may have been far from the action, but it did offer an ideal location for eavesdropping equipment. Meanwhile, the U.S. agreed to build in that soggy spot near the Moscow River, primarily because it was close to the old embassy and only a mile from the Kremlin. "It's a classic case of one part of the Government not talking to the other...
...Holworthy's laundry room hails the vindictive statement "Bomb Bambi in '87." But the defender of the deer rose to the rescue and not only wrote a reply but sketched a drawing of Bambi saying "No! please bomb Thumper or Blossom? Yeah, in fact, bombing Blossom is a great ideal...
...elements seem to repetitive, a passionate lover after passionate lover turns out to be a spy; sometimes the exaggerated characters become only tiresome stereotypes. Some passages can be relatively tedious, such as the tired political debates relived over and over in Ana's hospital room the repeated philosophizing on ideal relationships between men and women. Dialogue often tends to be melodramatic...