Word: manifestants
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Opposing C-D is the Gordon Group, a partnership composed mainly of Hungarian immigrants who have become successful in the construction business. They want to restore the building and convert it into a tourist attraction, including museums of early Hollywood. The partners see their manifest destiny as Americans in saving a piece of old Hollywood. Bill Gordon, sixtyish with sad, deep-set eyes, fled Hungary in 1956, crossing the Ferto Lake into Austria with his family in a rubber raft. He wrote his sister-in-law, then living in Los Angeles, asking, "How far do you live from Hollywood?" Gordon...
...countryside and adopted articles of impeachment that sounded with a resonant sadness: "In all of this, Richard M. Nixon has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States...
...agent for twelve years, Livingston was especially adept at undercover work, frequently risking death. Says William Brown, his attorney and an old friend: "Anyone who lives the extremely stressful five years that Pat has lived will manifest the stress in some manner. The FBI has had no program to prepare agents for living a schizophrenic life...
...insists, fashion has become a Tower of Babel: "The BBC cameraman who buys his gear when on assignment in the States, and the American lady executive whose clothes were made in Italy, are in a sense imaginary citizens of Los Angeles and Rome, and may be expected to manifest some of the traits associated with these cities." Of course, some people simply do not care what their apparel says about them: ''An article may be worn because it is warm or rainproof or handy to cover up a wet bathing suit-in the same way that persons...
...sacrifice necessary to survive. The way director Michael Cimino sets things up, it's understood that they will win DeNiro always is a winner, and here with his boy's-book sensibility and see-to-shining-sea masculinity among the racially-stereotyped Vietcong it's just another case of manifest destiny...