Word: relax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Back in Washington the mood seemed hardly favorable to such a request. Some outspoken Congressmen feel that the U.S. should relax its longstanding support for the Salvadoran government and instead pursue power-sharing negotiations with the Marxist-led Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, a course the guerrillas have long advocated. Said New York Congressman Stephen Solarz: "There's a growing concern that our policy is leading nowhere...
With United States finally complete, Anderson will next turn her critical eye to another technological icon, television. "People don't know what to do with TV," she says. "It's used as a way to relax and be entertained, but I think Americans are insulted by the level of their TV." Characteristically, Anderson is equally leery of the cultural upholstery on British television ("It's creepy and dangerous"). But before she can begin work on her new opus, she will have to buy a television set, something she has so far resisted. "When...
...with such intelligence that she seems constrained by Jaffe's low-key interpretation. The tautness of her motions often reveals the depth of her characterization. When she visits her husband in the hospital, after he is beat up in the course of the investigation, her otherwise highly poised muscles relax as she tells him a terrible joke. That one moment evokes the despurate need for affection behind their irreparable estrangement. Susan reaches the breaking point late in the movie, in an explosive tirade against her best friend. In this scene, her seemingly insane refusal to admit that...
...Self-satisfaction took over a number of our players," Walsh says plainly, "a feeling that they could now relax. Greed set in. Jealousy of stars too. Resentment toward new players joining the team. 'After all, they were never champions.' That sort of thing. Also, and maybe mostly, an attitude that said: 'Don't worry, I'll turn it on in time. I did it before.' Our first game against the Raiders [a 23-17 loss], you could really see it. 'I'm the champ. I'll pull it out. Here comes...
...ceremony, although emotionally charged, was held without incident, but Miami knew that it could not afford to relax. Eight investigations were under way to pinpoint the causes of the disorder and assess the performance of the Miami police against the rock-throwing, car-trashing and window-smashing mobs. Some of the probes focused on Policeman Luis Alvarez, who shot Johnson in the head at short range after, police claimed, the victim had made a "sudden move." Johnson had a handgun under his shirt...