Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ethos was also unbending. Those who challenged it endangered their academic lives. In the middle of a hockey game, a student skated out onto the ice dressed as an Indian (the Dartmouth symbol which was thrown out by the administration because it was offensive to Native Americans on campus). The crowd went wild. The administration, however didn't join the cheering. They suspended the student, then removed the suspension and imposed a strange penalty; the student had to take a Native American student to lunch every week for a year...
...influence of Nancy Reagan on her husband, which has been noted by both China's Deng Xiaoping and the Soviet Union's Andrei Gromyko after official meetings with the President. Reagan's growing interest in foreign policy is another. He has faces and personalities to put onto governments, and friends to call and talk with about international problems. That has changed what was often an academic exercise into a people problem, which Reagan likes...
...weight. When bad art is busy defending the exploited, does it place one with Pinochet to speak of taste? Most political artists offer values that seem hardly more nuanced than the New Masses cartoons of the 1930s: Manichaean Punch-and-Judy shows of good and evil, projecting ideological stereotypes onto schematically experienced realities. But one striking exception is Leon Golub...
...hands several times during the film. Coppola presents the titillating moments of mob murders, like when Dixie and Vera watch the impulsive Dutchman stab his rival Flynn with a turkey carver during dinner. The blood sprays the walls, and covers the ivory tablecloth, while drops fall from the chandelier onto Lane's porcelian cheeks. Although scenes like these have dramatic bang, they never build to anything substantitive, instead disappearing into Coppola's cinematic labyrinth...
...serious about their threats." The hostages were taken back inside the plane, but five minutes later the man in the white shirt reappeared atop the ramp. He could be heard screaming as the hijackers coldly took aim and fired six shots into him. His body was also thrown onto the runway. U.S. officials denied that the American envoy to Karachi was on the plane and established later that the victim was William Stanford, 52, an AID official stationed in Pakistan...