Word: loving
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though Maggie Topkis is fine in several scenes, particularly when relating the story of her first and last high-school love, she has none of the delicacy and fragility that link Laura to her glass animals. And her acting is annoyingly obvious at times, showing instead of feeling...
...first acts was to purge the Iranian broadcast media of Western-style artists and music. "They all love to talk," one expert says of the Council members, and alliances within the group shift dramatically from issue to issue...
...state, plus Palestine Liberation Organization Chief Yasser Arafat, had gathered for their annual meeting. An honor guard wearing plumed gold helmets presented arms with drawn swords as the leaders trooped into Tunis' Palais de Congrès for a summit that one Kuwaiti delegate predicted would be a "love feast." He meant that there would be no public arguments about divisive subjects and that the leaders would merely reaffirm their opposition to Egyptian President Anwar Sadat for signing the Camp David accords with Israel...
...Khmer Rouge used to enforce discipline was cannibalism. One refugee told a group of assembled Cambodians at Sakaew of an incident he had observed when adultery was considered a crime punishable by death. A married man and a pregnant woman wed to another man had been caught making love. The man was beaten to death. Then members of the local work team were forced to watch the woman's execution. Recalled the witness...
...question, however, in the '30s at Cambridge, homosexuality and leftish opinions tended to go together. For instance, many of the Apostles, an elitist society at one time dominated by [Economist John Maynard] Keynes, and closely associated with his college, King's, notoriously combined culture, Communism and the love that nowadays all too readily dares to speak its name. Also in residence at King's, and also decisively homosexual, was the famous but, as I think, much overrated novelist E.M. Forster, who provided putative traitors with a serviceable formula for justifying their treachery by insisting that...