Word: norrisism
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Some movies reverse the moral onus that Americans long felt about the war. They are fantasies of revenge, like Missing in Action, in which Chuck Norris returns to Indochina to rescue old buddies still held there by evil Vietnamese who look like the wily, despicable Japanese in World War II...
India's diplomatic community has been the target of at least three other violent attacks over the past three years. In June 1982 the first secretary of the Kuwaiti embassy was shot and killed in his home in New Delhi. Then, in October 1983, Jordan's Ambassador survived a shooting...
Many corporate chiefs took a tough stance against takeover artists. Said William Norris, chairman of Control Data, a computer company: "We're not for sale. If anybody comes to try to buy us, we'll kick their butts out the door."
Because of the absence of physical action, the actors pay careful attention to maintaining the proper emotional balance. And for the most part, such carefully modulated performances are successful. Norris and Dishy maintain a constant level of sexual and psychological tension, yet they never allow it to get out of...
Admittedly, the play does intermittently descend into a maudlin sort of melancholia, aggravated by its overtly economic swipes on upperclass values. It isn't enough, for instance, for Jean to tell Julie that "love is a game we [the servants] play when we get time off front work;" he has...