Word: praiseed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Strangely enough, you could not really call Desert Bloom bad, because it really isn't. It's just inconsequential. This film falls under the heading of "sweet," perhaps the worst praise a movie can use to advertise itself. And there's something annoying about dramatic movies that take themselves too...
The bipartisan respect that Lugar commands is testimony to his adept stewardship of the Foreign Relations Committee. In less than two years as chairman, the Rhodes scholar and former mayor of Indianapolis has taken firm charge of a committee that in recent years has been rendered virtually impotent by dissension...
Although billed as the culmination of a two-month "reassessment" of U.S. policy, the speech was actually a reassertion of the President's policy of constructive engagement, a call for continuing efforts to persuade rather than pressure Pretoria to abandon apartheid and speed efforts to prepare for power sharing with...
By opening a dialogue with Israel, Hassan won the praise of the Reagan Administration. He may also have prevented a cutback in the $140 million in aid that Morocco receives from the U.S. Congressional leaders had been unhappy with Hassan ever since he signed a largely meaningless "treaty of union...
Yet all this splendid craftsmanship, popular moviemaking at its best, is in the service of building rooting interest in the story of a woman who keeps finding ways to transcend the limits that unexamined custom often imposes on her sex. In action pictures, women are supposed to swoon or retreat...