Word: presentational
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because the Panamanian movement against Noriega has widespread support from people of all economic classes and the present military regime is wearing down, Eisenman said, however, that the conditions are ripe for political change...
Calling the release a "goodwill" gesture, the hijackers said the Jordanian nationals were freed as a "present to the uprising in Palestine," the 4-months-old Arab rebellion in Israeli-occupied territories...
...light of Glen Schwaber's letter to the editor (April 11), the Society of Arab Students (SAS) would like to clarify our ongoing attempts to present the Palestinian perpective of the current uprising against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip...
...Weldon is more interested in cleverness than character. Her gabby narrator, a woman in the Wexfords' social circle, buckets along, throwing motivation and consistency to the winds in favor of little epigrams and bitchy asides ("She looked like a Christmas cracker with no present inside"). Weldon even produced this flighty nonsense the old-fashioned way: in weekly installments for the British magazine Woman. The Hearts and Lives of Men will make superior feminist beach reading...
McInerney found a singular voice in which to recount the drugged out misadventures of a young man named Jamie as he wanders through the downtown Manhattan club scene at its early-'80s height. His book was written entirely in the second person and mostly in the present tense. But there are no equivalents to these devices in the grammar of film. As a result, his screenplay lacks the bite of his original fiction...