Word: laid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ambitious new films, both telling tales of the end of empire, are as different as their titles: Cry Freedom and Sammy & Rosie Get Laid. The first is Director Richard Attenborough's stately, schizophrenic epic of South Africa a decade ago as blacks groped toward liberation. Sammy & Rosie is Screenwriter Hanif Kureishi's double vision of London as the hip place to be and the last place on postimperial earth. For 2 hr. 35 min., Cry Freedom meanders through a meadow of noble sentiments, finding its only drama in the education of a white liberal South African and his escape from...
...page report, researched after the president admitted to cheating, stated that the election's poorly laid out ballots, improper timing, and lack of proportional representation of the student body in the government required that all 50 assembly members seek reelection...
...since neither of these preconditions--cooperation or control--existed in South Africa in 1981, most of Huntington's paper focused on the process through which the basis for such an 'elite conspiracy' could be laid, a process he chose to call "reform." Based on the model of Brazilian President Geisel's "decompression", or "liberalization", Huntington recommended that the South African government pay attention to six factors. In order to wage a "two-front war against both stand-patters and revolutionaries" (p. 16), he said, reformers require...
Under terms laid down by a September 21 Council vote, Sullivan picked Moses from a list submitted by universities and private research labs. He chose Wise after rejecting two other nominations from the Cambridge Committee for Responsible Research (CCRR), which leads the movement to restrict local animal research...
...said, "I have to hand it to you. I'm feeling better already about our nation's long-term prospects. It would be a shame if it was laid waste in a nuclear war, though...