Word: rare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even hidden underneath the seats in a movie theater, shaking with fear, you can see what makes Aliens out of this world. Not just a great horror flick, but a great movie, complete with characters and feeling. Rare for Hollywood...
...movie has its fighters, its leaders, its guns, its synthetic person, its space ship technology, and its hideous slimy monsters. But the film also accurately portrays human interaction and emotion, rare for a movie of this genre. And you don't need to have seen its predecessor Alien to enjoy this sequel...
...nation, this voice of heaven, this voice of God . . ." Still, the victory was only a first step toward Nakasone's goal of extending his leadership for another two years. Now he must begin the tricky task of persuading his sprawling and splintered party to allow him a rare third term as party president, and thus as Japan's leader...
...questionable election result was a blow to President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado's vaunted campaign of "moral renovation." In 1983, De la Madrid's first year in power, Mexico enjoyed rare fraud-free elections. P.A.N. won mayorships in all of the seven largest cities of Chihuahua. P.R.I. officials privately vowed not to let such a calamity recur. Last year the ruling party resorted to flagrant irregularities while securing victory in elections in two northern states; in December it changed Chihuahua's laws so that the preparation and tallying of votes would be undertaken by P.R.I. agents. Such practices, however...
INSTANCES LIKE THESE are rare, but not as rare as some people would like to think. Ironically, my roommate had sought to follow the advice of crime prevention officers by taking steps to protect herself. But because of one major flaw in the otherwise beneficial escort service, she was verbally assaulted and ran a risk of being sexually assaulted...