Word: im
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wednesday, 9--George Bush emerges from his Houston Residence, the Sheraton Hotel, to address his supporters. "I don't care what anybody says, I didn't cry when they told me, I didn't. And if anybody says I cried, I'll kick 'im right in the rear end. I mean it. War heroes don't kid around...
First-year team member Yong Jim Im was thrust into a starting role as the setter--sometimes called the quarterback of a volleyball team--in the place of Toro. With only three days to practice with Im as the setter, the team was disoriented...
...gamut. The character of Mattie is handled adeptly. Though she sometimes stumbles on lines and can be soppy at emotional moments, Choi really conveys the portrait of the girl who's made it, a glitzy woman who turns her cultural heritage to profit. Mattie's brother Johnny (Yongjin Im) has fabulous lines like "Cantonese sweet 'n' sour goes straight to your scrotum, but Im is at times overly theatrical. And his accent does not exactly match those of the characters of his brother Johnny or his parents...
...tells of blood on the brain that threatened his life last year and required surgery that left a dent in his skull. He talks of hanging up his hunting weapons and of resisting the temptations that caused Hemingway's slippage from art to publicity. "The work is the im-paw-dent thing," he says. "That's all that's going to be left. Otherwise it's just a faded photograph album with a picture of yourself with a rhinoceros head or a marlin hanging on a scaffold...
...often," she says, "personal embarrassment and social stigma are associated with an illness whose cause is beyond the control of the individual." That stigma should be lessened and more people should be encouraged to seek treatment now that scientists have confirmed the source of manic depression can indeed be im blut...