Word: reclaim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forth in time, Morrison's narrative slowly unfolds the rationale behind Sethe's violent act. What seems incomprehensible gradually takes on an awful inevitability. Having risked everything to escape servitude and degradation and having tasted nearly a month of freedom, Sethe saw four men on horseback approaching to reclaim her and her children: "And if she thought anything, it was No. No. Nono. Nonono. Simple. She just flew. Collected every bit of life she had made, all the parts of her that were precious and fine and beautiful, and carried, pushed, dragged them through the veil, out, away, over there...
...passed at the end of this year or early next, the Democratic Progressives suffer from a bad case of factionalism, which is certain to be aggravated by the recent release of long-imprisoned opposition leaders. Now that they are free again, they are sure to be impatient to reclaim their old political roles...
...than any of the three branches of government that magnificent document created. It was that obligation Americans neglected after they twice elected Ronald Reagan to the presidency. If any good is to come out of the whole Reagan-Iran-contra mess, it will be if individual Americans rediscover and reclaim that duty to themselves and to each other...
This is, perhaps, the implicit lesson of almost all action films. But most of them have permitted their heroes to reclaim their honor at the end. The good guys are allowed to think their fall from purity and motive was a temporary aberration. There is no such escape for Eliot Ness. Despite its driving pace, style and wit, this film's pervasive mood is a strange and haunting sadness. The Untouchables is, of all things, touching...
...been involved in homosexual activity. Four weeks ago, Bakker was ousted from the ministry by the Assemblies of God, a major Pentecostal denomination. Jim and Tammy fled to their handsome retreat in Palm Springs, Calif., from which Jim sent messages indicating that at some point he hoped to reclaim his domain...