Word: outspoken
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...Alan Paton, the outspoken liberal critic of apartheid recently remarked, "I will never give any support to any campaign that will put men out of jobs not even if they promised me that it would bring Chernenko down Or Reagan Or P.W. Botha...
...Chernenko's death--puzzled Western diplomats. Some insight into Gorbachev's confirmation emerged last week with the release of Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's nominating speech to the Central Committee. The address seemed to Western analysts to have been aimed at blunting potential criticism that Gorbachev, 54, was too outspoken. Gromyko lauded the new leader for expressing himself with a "Leninist directness." Gromyko also stressed that Gorbachev had in effect been "brilliantly" running the country during Chernenko's illness...
...loving French moviegoers. Since it opened last month, the film has been banned briefly (a judge lifted the censorship), and demonstrators have jostled and insulted ticket holders in line. The reason for the fuss is the film's plot, a contemporary version of the virgin birth. Mary is the outspoken, truculent daughter of a gas-station manager; Joseph is a taxi driver who at the news of her pregnancy mutters about how good her other lovers must have been; the Archangel Gabriel is a drunken roughneck; and Jesus turns out to be a turbulent toddler who exclaims...
...They look for people who will ally naturally with one side or the other," he added Nicolson. Dorf says. has gamed a reputation as an outspoken liberal, while Keyser has taken the conservative side on many issues in the past...
...overall winner, with the balance divided among other contending groups. Thus, in the new assembly, the D.J.P. will control 149 seats to the N.K.D.P.'s 67. The real base of power remains in the President's office, but the results should help to make the assembly a more outspoken forum than it has been in the recent past...