Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moving image is used as proof of the film's thesis that fetuses are "indistinguishable in every way" from both humans...
...Florida matriarch. Jack, who wed the girl he made pregnant in Georgetown days, is the boyishly charming and faintly untrustworthy Lieutenant Governor of Indiana. After much mischance, Jack and Kitty do return to Buffalo, the Snow Ball and each other's arms. The climax is, predictably, anticlimax, a sad proof that the old Wasp world is beyond recapture...
...creates with terrifying familiarity a portrait of the sycophantic politician per excellence. He oozes charm, exudes insincerity, succeeding so well, in fact, that the only thing priestly about this bon vivant is the funny collar he wears. It appears as just that, and in no way a credible proof of his purported priestly status. Why not call a spade a spade the man a pinstriped suit...
...what has become a trademark feature of his State of the Union speeches, the President illustrated one of his main points with living, on-the-premises examples. Near the end of his address, as proof that "anything is possible in America," Reagan introduced two special guests seated with wife Nancy in the visitors' gallery: Jean Nguyen, 21, a cadet at West Point whose family fled Viet Nam as refugees in 1974, and "Mother" Clara Hale, 79, a Harlem social worker who specializes in the care of heroin-addicted infants born of drug- abusing mothers. The President had scouted both...
...hostile witness" by Westmoreland's lawyers. Crile asserted last week that he believed Westmoreland had suppressed intelligence estimates for "political reasons," and that he doubted Westmoreland had been "forthright and straight with us" when interviewed in 1981 for the CBS show. Crile's new testimony was offered as proof of his "state of mind," that is, his belief that the assertions of the documentary were true...