Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DURING THE HOSTAGE CRISIS, Americans described the Middle East as a barbaric area, a place where ignorant subhumans engaged in terror. Stupid Khomeini jokes abounded, later replaced by equally nonsensical remarks about Qaddafi. Little objectivity and understanding have been shed on the region by a people whose country's financial and strategic interests often outweigh local concerns of Middle Easterners. The Carter Doctrine--whose sole purpose is to protect American interests in the Middle East, with force if necessary, despite their implications--stands as a case in point. In such a climate, then, it's surprising when an American-written...
...Arabia. From an interview with a Turkish journalist, Leyla Umar, it is evident that Amin is as feisty and fanciful as ever. He commented on President Reagan ("I don't like him any more") and told of how his fellow Ugandans pine for his return. The former dictator shed 20 Ibs. so he could beat his offspring in swimming races. He says he lost the weight in one week by eating smaller portions. "If I can lose several more pounds," he says, "no one will be able to beat me, whether here or anywhere else on earth...
IMAGES are of the essence in politics. The major strike against the liberals over the past year has been the impression they convey of antiquated figures living in the past. The ADA must face the 1980s reality that to succeed, the liberals will have to shed their image of rejuvenated New Dealers...
...Republicans too can claim some successful gerrymandering. In Indiana, which will lose one seat, the G.O.P.-dominated legislature passed a plan that put three Democratic incumbents into the same district. The G.O.P. has also profited from internecine warfare among the Democrats. In Massachusetts, which must shed one seat, the Democratic legislature pushed Republican Congresswoman Margaret Heckler and Democratic Congressman Barney Frank into the same district. The new seat contains about 70% of Heckler's old district, and the legislators stoutly refused to tack on the Democratic city of Framingham to bolster Frank's chances. The abrasive Frank evidently...
...real suspense of the film derives from the troubles that Leading Lady Pia Zadora keeps having with her wardrobe. Sometimes it seems to have a will of its own and just starts sliding off her. On other occasions, when there is some feebly logical reason for her to shed it (taking a bath, going to bed), you may be sure that Stacy Keach, as the father figure she has for some reason taken it into her head to seduce, will be around to catch a tantalizing glimpse of this or that secondary sexual characteristic. Since Zadora is the principal backer...