Word: mins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mondale appeared tired and read his 25-min. speech in a lackluster singsong. ("The speech was typed better than it was read," groaned one of his supporters.) Nevertheless, the force and eloquence of the language prompted his obviously sympathetic audience to interrupt him with 24 ovations. The speech struck hard and often at Reagan's remark about intolerance. "B'nai B'rith is opposed to Mr. Reagan's [school-prayer] amendment; I would not call you intolerant of religion," said Mondale. "Baptists, Episcopalians, Methodists, Presbyterians, Lutherans and other church groups also oppose his amendment. And they...
...result is a grand, sprawling entertainment that incites enthrallment for much of its 2 hr. 38 min. Shaffer's screenplay retains many of the play's epigrammatic fulminations, deftly synopsizes whole sections, transforms Mozart's father from a hectoring apparition to an onscreen tyrant, and provides a thrilling new climax in which the dying Mozart dictates his Requiem to a Salieri racked with guilt, jealousy and awe. If the operatic excerpts occasionally impede dramatic flow, they capture the Mozartian spirit as well as comment, with typical Forman bravura, on the theme of an oaf who makes miracles...
...Wednesday night's roll call proceeded predictably-votes for Reagan and Bush were cast on the same ballot-the President and Bush were joined in the Reagans' suite by their wives. The Missouri delegation's vote boosted the uncontested ticket over the top just 45 min. later than the script said it would. Ever ready with a one-liner, Reagan quipped, "We've been sweating this...
...that the President's 55-min. speech disappointed his listeners. On the contrary, they interrupted it 95 times with applause. They answered with hearty choruses of "No!" when Reagan asked whether they had any doubts that the Democrats would "make Government bigger than ever and deficits even worse, raise unemployment" and "make unilateral and unwise concessions to the Soviet Union." In fact, they were so eager to be roused that they would not allow Reagan to complete one of his punch lines. Saying that he was tempted to compare Democratic spending habits to those of a drunken sailor, Reagan...
...instruments-maneuvers that require such acute eye-hand coordination that arthroscopy has been dubbed "videogame surgery"-James located a piece of cartilaginous material about 1 in. long. As the surgeon snipped the taut, rubber bandlike tissue with his scissors, there was an audible snap. The entire procedure took 40 min. Two days later Benoit was exercising on a treadmill. In Richmond, Retton checked out of the hospital the day of her operation and was back training in a Houston gym the next...