Word: joining
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...apparent effort to win back lost favor, Craxi last week proposed that the Socialists and Christian Democrats agree on "a three-year government" to bring some stability to the political process. Other parties, he added, would be welcome to join. His opponents immediately wondered aloud why stability was suddenly so important to the Socialist leader, but others supported the idea. A three-year pact, wrote the right-of-center Il Giornale, "would permit an exit from the vagueness of electoral rhetoric, to confront the programs and delineate the things to be done." A three-year government would also...
Denis might also have been surprised to see his wife's career blossom just as his was ending. Born in London in 1915, he was sent to Mill Hill, a second-drawer boarding school, then went on to join the Royal Artillery. By the end of World War II, he had risen to the rank of major. There was also a brief marriage and a divorce. Denis' grandfather in Kent had discovered an effective sheep-dip and founded a company, Atlas Preservatives, to market it. After the war, Denis went to work for the firm, which became...
Some 160,000 refugees have come to L.A. from El Salvador since 1980, when the crossfire of insurgency and repression escalated. Most are unskilled and terribly poor. In 1981 Narciso Cardoza walked over the Mexican border into Texas, illegally, and then flew to L.A. to join his wife and daughter, now 5, in East L.A. "I thought I would be living with Americans, lots of blonds speaking English and playing baseball," he says of his arrival, "but it looked just like Mexico to me." He is disapproving of his Mexican neighbors who, he says, "sit around all day, swearing...
...steps and ledges ... The idea was to prove at every foot of the way that you were one of the elected and anointed ones who had the right stuff and could move higher and higher and even-ultimately, God willing, one day-that you might be able to join that special few at the very top, the very Brotherhood of the Right Stuff itself...
...young men discover that they have been had and how they join forces to take revenge are the substance of Trading Places, one of the most emotionally satisfying and morally gratifying comedies of recent times. Perhaps because of an almost geometrically balanced structure, it has powerful persuasiveness when it moves the audience to the wilder shores of farce. Any movie that can punish a villain by involving him in a homosexual love affair with a gorilla and make the situation both plausible and risible is a picture to be reckoned with...