Word: profound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...WARM WEATHER and musky smell of subway construction from the Square has a profound effect on the youthful hormone system, and this creates problems for the proctors as well as the Harolds of summer school. Naturally you have a professional duty to restrain from philandering with the guests, but when opportunity knocks at 3 a.m., wondering if you have a match when you've said repeatedly that you can't stand smokers--well, you do the best...
...slowly became aware of television's frequent triviality, its distorting brevity, its obsession with action and movement, its infantile attention span and its profound lack of thoughtful analysis," the author says. Turning away from the money and the fame. MacNeil walked...
...Madrid will need all the help he can get. His extravagant campaign was a sign that the P.R.I. was running scared, and with reason. The U.S.'s populous (72 million) and oil-rich southern neighbor is in the throes of a profound economic and social crisis. Inflation is running at an annual rate of about 60%, and last February the Mexican peso suffered a 40% devaluation. The country's current foreign debt is about $52 billion, among the highest in the Third World. Nervous investors have pulled some $6 billion of their capital out of the country...
...time between lechery and Valium. He has to cope with a woozy old ham (Michael Aldridge) who makes only two kind of entrances: pre-cue and post-cue. "I thought I heard my voice," he says blearily. And then there is the Stanislavski Method actor who wants a profound psychological reason as to why he has to exit with a plate of sardines...
Mexican Author and Diplomat Carlos Fuentes at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn.: "Nationalism represents a profound value for Latin Americans simply because of the fact that our nationhood is still in question. In New York, Paris or London, no one loses sleep asking themselves whether the nation exists. In Latin America you can wake up and find that the nation s no longer there, usurped by a military junta, a multinational corporation or an American ambassador surrounded by a jevy of technical advisers. That the junta in Buenos Aires, acting under the impression that it had been given the green...