Word: motions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Also at that Commencement, gay students distributed 10,000 copies of a letter protesting the Faculty Council's rejection of a motion to forbid discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation...
Although his tactics have changed, his smooth running style has not. Murrer, who runs the 400 with Jones, describes him as "liquid motion...
...impending crackdown and the number of Soviet officials involved, Safire appeared to have been tipped off by a talkative U.S. official. It could hardly have been a deliberate leak aimed at forcing the French to act sooner, since the machinery for the mass ouster was already in motion by the time Safire's column appeared, but French officials did not hide their irritation at Washington's inability to keep a secret...
...some cases, the sentimental favorite (i.e., Paul Newman for Best Actor). Only the intellectual strategy produced a batting average worth mentioning. This raises not only the complex question of what the Academy bases its awards on, but the more relevant mystery: who makes up this self-important Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
...view the nominated films, receive briefings on their technical achievements, and with an eye to popular opinion, hash out over a period of many days the definitive list of winners. But a call to the Academy shatters such illusions. The Academy is made up of approximately 4200 "professional motion picture craftsmen and artists" who view the pictures in their spare time and submit nominations in their field. Actors nominate actors, directors nominate directors and cinematographers nominate cinematographers. But everyone votes on all the nominations in the last balloting and chooses his or her personal favorite...