Word: sighing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Young men who have not registered for the draft can breathe a sigh of relief. The Justice Department this week officially postponed plans to seek indictments against some of the 800,000 who have violated federal law by failing to sign up. President Reagan has not yet decided whether to continue registration, but as a candidate he strongly opposed former President Jimmy Carter's reinstitution of the program...
...flesh peeling off and the red and white blobby pulp beneath. Hot stuff! Then the Shape drills a cute little blonde nurse in the back with a scalpel, picking her up and holding her aloft as she wriggles on the end until the last, sad sigh when her feet relax and shoes pop off, and the audience laughs blissfully as her body crumples on top of them. Then there's the conscientious, independent nurse who gets a needle gently inserted into her eye. I'm tired of chicken-shit directors discreetly cutting away from stuff like this: but Rick Rosenthal...
...ship touched down exactly 2 days, 6 hr., 13 min. and 10 sec. after the start of her globe-girdling flight, the pilot of a little chase plane said: "Welcome home." And the watching world, even the cool hands at Mission Control Center in Houston, breathed a collective sigh of relief...
...frustrations of dealing with such a leader have led to some extreme ideas as a solution. "If someone fired a few bullets at Gaddafi we would all breathe a sigh of relief," said an Israeli official last week...
...small step toward extricating himself from his deluding passion. But like everything else in this sidelong glance of a movie, that point is, at most, implied. He has a long road to travel before he finds the freedom to respond to life as Rohmer does-with a wry sigh. The director of such wittily profound films as My Night at Maud's, Claire's Knee and The Marquise of O . . ., Rohmer has long since established himself as one of film's most assured miniaturists. This latest meditation on romantic absurdity is one of his most approachable...