Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After weeks of intense negotiation, Haig had admitted failure in the U.S. effort to bring about a diplomatic settlement in the Falklands crisis. He left no doubt that the blame lay with the aggressor, Argentina, and announced that the U.S. was finally abandoning its formal stance of neutrality in the dispute. Effective immediately, the U.S. was joining 14 other Western nations in imposing some form of economic sanctions on Argentina...
...would raise problems even in the conditions of a tropical paradise. In autumn in the Roaring Forties [the South Atlantic from 40° to 50° latitude, a region near the Falklands known for rough seas] what has to be done must be done quickly. Argentina's advantage lay in spinning the negotiations out, Britain's in speedy resolution. Be bold, be bloody, be resolute if you really must-but be quick...
...means they had used were almost universally condemned.) The Argentine military must now, Galtieri said, be turned back to its proper role. I took this task in hand, explaining to my hearers that although Argentina was many thousands of miles from where so much of the international action lay, we all lived on the same planet and had to see it whole. The Beagle Channel at the southern tip of Argentina, for example, was to them of compelling interest. Yet the Strait of Hormuz and the waterways through the Indonesian archipelago, industrial Japan's lifeline, were perhaps more important...
...filmed rally and mouths the Führer's words. He was both the big star and his biggest fan. And Speer (Rutger Hauer)-the young architect who became "the nearest thing Hitler has to a friend" and ran Germany's war machine while Hitler lay quivering inside the bunker of his psychosis-played both a featured role and the ideal, attentive audience. It was not until his imprisonment for war crimes that Speer became Nazism's most knowledgeable critic...
...concentrated here: performers extend into precarious postures, arms and hands arc into orbit, leaps become new formations in midair. Few works in the current dance repertory dis play so much vibrancy and amplitude. The piece contains a message as well: modern dance has risen from the floor-where it lay in defiance of ballet-to employ an immense treasure of movement and lyricism. To date, Court is the most accomplished announcement of that rebirth. Memo to June Taylor: Move over...