Word: movingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Muller's Peace Corps experience did not contribute to a rapport with Mengistu, though. "I mentioned that I had found it moving to revisit the village in which I had taught and in which Mengistu had been educated," reports Muller. "The remark evoked no response, not the thinnest smile of...
Even John Wayne made a picture in modern dress every once in a while. Louis L'Amour, western man, has followed the Duke's example. In his 95th novel, Last of the Breed, he focuses on Joseph Makatozi, a major in the U.S. Air Force. But Joe is not quite...
Many people, trapped by various aspects of society--including the professor, the goatherd, and a ridiculous grass-smoking stereotype who wears a heavy locked chain around his neck, and says mysteriously, "I threw away the key"-- feel this strange attraction to Mona, and the viewer comes to feel it also...
The film is filled with heavyhanded symbols of societal oppression and the universal urge to free oneself from convention, and the director's major problem is that she cannot quite decide whether Mona is a person or a symbol. The fact that we learn nearly nothing about her personal history...
Even for Jesse Helms, the words were extreme. On a visit to Chile, the North Carolina Republican Senator accused U.S. Ambassador Harry Barnes of "planting the American flag in the midst of Communist activity." If President Reagan knew of the situation, Helms claimed, "he would send the Ambassador home." After...