Word: misses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Freedom is not the chief and continual object of their desires, it is equality for which [Americans] feel an eternal love, they rush on freedom with quick and sudden impulses, but if they miss their mark, they resign themselves to their disappointment; but nothing will satisfy them without equality, and they would rather die than lose it." Tocqueville, Democracy in America...
...those 3000-plus didn't miss a moment of perhaps the most exciting game in the rink's three-year history...
...Soviet screens was a veritable icon of the Kremlin's masters. In an arresting gesture that symbolized 17 years of shared power, the lanky, 6-ft.-tall Suslov, 79, bent down to bestow a kiss on Leonid Brezhnev, who was celebrating his 75th birthday. Brezhnev will sorely miss such accolades, both ceremonial and substantive. Suslov's death last week from a stroke deprived Brezhnev of his most influential ally in the Soviet Union's ruling collective leadership. Observed one Moscow diplomat: "A pillar has been knocked out from under Brezhnev...
Sugar and spice and every known vice-that's what Beth Henley's plays are made of. The Delta ladies who inhabit Henley's comic universe can be found a few miles south of Jackson, Miss., and just this side of Bananas. There is Babe Botrelle, whose Crimes of the Heart are to shoot her piggish husband (because "I just didn't like his looks") and to keep close company with a 15-year-old black boy. Popeye Jackson, from The Miss Firecracker Contest, knits tiny jumpsuits for frogs and "can hear voices through my eyes...
...eyes than we've grown accustomed to. The sixties currently enjoy a romantic revival all their own. The music of Jimi Hendrix and the Doors may be even more popular now. Political activist reminisce bout those bolder days. And our first strong president in two decades only makes us miss the Kennedys more. But portraying social issues and confronting them are two different things, and no one in Four Friends seems to know what they're about. Four Friends is particularly disappointing since Penn also directed Alice's Restaurant, the dark farce widely acknowledged as one of the finest "sixties...