Word: powerfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some Arab countries, which had originally demanded Egypt's expulsion from the conference, settled for a treaty condemnation but a committee was assigned to ivestigate the peace treaty and given power to suspend the Sadat government from the movement...
Chaired by Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, the conference is aimed at ending the guerilla warfare still raging in that country and at bringing about an acceptable transfer of power to the nation's black majority...
Alda's irrepressible personality overwhelms the role. Despite his intention to save his family and marriage, he has jumped on a treadmill of political power and, unlike George Jetson, he can't even call for Jane. Politics subsumes the rest of his life; even with women, only one who can be a political part in his life attracts...
...other woman," Karen Traynor, is played masterfully by WASP phenomenon Meryl Streep. A lawyer whose civil rights organization gives Tynan information which can destroy a supposedly racist Supreme Court nominee, Traynor bears the oft-mentioned aphrodisiac of power: as Tynan makes the move on Traynor in his private office, he whispers, "I think I'm infatuated with you... You remind me of John Kennedy...
...lunch" in Network, the senator and the lawyer share information about their upcoming confrontation with the Supreme Court nominee while performing stress tests on their new Posturepedic. Streep, tackling with stunning confidence an entirely different role from that she played in The Deer Hunter, evinces a magnetic attraction to power. In her first conversation with Tynan, she says, "When I think of the splash you could make with this, I just get weak in the knees...