Word: inglis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...counting proceeded in the cool confines of the Assembly building, each vote recorded for Marcos added anger and outrage to the tension building across the far-flung archipelago. Tentatively but with increasing signs of determination, Aquino supporters were starting to take their frustrations into the streets. Wav- ing clenched fists and chanting "Fight! Fight!," thousands of Filipinos marched in a 13-mile procession through the capital. They escorted the flag-draped coffin of Evelio Javier, 43, a regional Aquino campaign chairman who had been brutally gunned down days earlier in the province of Antique. Though far smaller in scale...
...Places In Between: "One assumes that foreign ladies, English and Americans particularly, because they are tremulous, neurotic bags of bone reduced by sexual malnutrition, find all Italians irresistible. Gentlemen who agree with this premise are often to be found in hotels during festa times when numerous visitors, to-ing and fro-ing at odd times, create a nice smorgasbord. Don Giovanni prowls the hallways, listening to accents and watching the sway of buttocks. He selects a recipient for his gifts and tracks her down to her door. He knocks and keeps knocking, asking for one small moment, pliss...
When the first 2,400 Macs arrived at Drexel in February 1984 and were distributed to freshmen and faculty, university officials noticed an immediate, if unanticipated, result: rather than studying for their upcoming exams, many of Drexel's 13,000 students were "Mac-ing around." Says Steve Weintraut, president of the campus computer users' group: "Everybody just barely made it through finals...
...Secretary indicated his department would use its regulatory authority to help local schools with their own flexible instruction systems, and intended to urge Congress to remove the present 4% limit on federal aid for alternate teaching methods that emphasize English. But at first blush, Congress was not buy- ing. Gus Hawkins, chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, seemed downright offended: "Congress worked hard last year to draft what we consider a good bilingual-education bill," he said, adding, "We fear Mr. Bennett's real intent is to gut the bilingual program over the long...
...told his tale at a pace just a little fizzier than the merely lifelike, encouraged his cameraman Michael Ballhaus to light it one notch brighter than reality, one notch darker than fantasy. His splendid actors never pause to explain their strange behavior. The result is a delirious and challeng- ing comedy, a postmodern Ulysses in Nighttown...