Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"Not only did he hurt his leg," the well-meaning color commentator said, "but he hurt his hand at home fooling around with his brother."
Right above Stevie Wonder's great lines sits a passage of Steven Biko's testimony that eloquently discusses the meaning of Black consciousness. Now, if I were Stevie Wonder, I'd feel pretty silly comparing my two-line cliche that sold a bunch of records to monumental statements made by...
The spectacle of Gorbachev in Cuba was an instructive one, more symbolic than substantive. Yet his message there echoed far more loudly in such far- flung corners of the globe as Poland and Kampuchea, where stunning events gave real meaning to Moscow's "new thinking."
Even better is Brun's turn as Dr. Chausable; he employs an entirely different British accent to capture perfectly the character's well-meaning but provincial sobriety as well as his underlying lecherousness. And as society matron Aunt Augusta, Emma Laskin drawls each word with a terrifically contemptuous sneer; she...
We had trouble understanding what the argument was all about until members of the opposition showed us four issues of their unofficial publication, called Sodeistviye, meaning assistance. According to an editorial in the first issue, Sodeistviye presented news that was not covered by the local party newspaper, "everything that Tambov...