Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Somoza decided early on to negotiate. He had little alternative: the Sandinistas not only were controlling events, but more important, were reflecting a widespread public mood. As the discussions dragged on through the night and into the next day, conditions in the overcrowded, ill-equipped palace became intolerable. Hostages who could not wait to use any of the four toilets in the palace found relief in wastebaskets behind the speaker's lectern in the Chamber of Deputies. During the first night, 300 people escaped by pushing out an air conditioner and climbing out a window. The guerrillas later released...
...publishers do not seem to be in a compromising mood. Besides, even if the pressmen were to survive this skirmish, the papers would no doubt be laying for them next time, and papers in other cities might eventually join the war. The pressmen are in a sense the last casualties in the newspaper industry's long, wrenching and inevitable shift from benign, family-dominated management to the more bloodless, efficient and profit-minded imperatives that other industries adopted decades ago. The pressmen, meanwhile, will continue to resist?and grow old. The News's Frank Boylan endured the rigors...
Carrying hand-lettered placards of protest, nearly 3,000 residents of an Ohio Valley coal-mining area pressed into a hotel ballroom in the town of St. Clairsville in a concerned and angry mood last week. The subject of the meeting, set up by the Environmental Protection Agency: an antipollution rule that has caused a classic conflict involving the competing needs for clean air, jobs and profits...
Jack and Bonita felt different, however, and the Wrather Corp. (oil, radio, TV and hotels) conducted a poll of audience attitudes. One of its conclusions: the public was in the mood for upbeat entertainment. And so the tenth?but unquestionably not last?Lassie was unleashed...
...unpertentious, you know?" Although more boneheaded "auteurist" cinema scholars--Black Edwards fans all--could probably give you a shot-by-shot analysis of this unsubtle director's techniques, most critics will find it hard to be objective about Revenge of the Pink Panther. So much depends on one's mood, the setting, the company, an, of course, one's expectations. To discard all pretense of objectivity: I had a great time at Revenge, although a) I was in a good mood, B) in a crowded, happy theater, with c) someone I was fond of and d) I expected nothing...