Word: sit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sit on the sidelines watching, with our hands tied by uncertainty and our vision lacking the sharply focused lens provided by the past, as momentous events burst one by one around us. Inevitably, we ask, how could it be? What will happen now? Is there cause for fear...
...allies are ready to sit down today and negotiate the simultaneous disbanding at least of the military aspects of the blocs. That might result in some destabilization, because the world has been structured on the basis of these two blocs, but we are ready. Your Secretary of Defense said in Portugal that it shouldn't be done, so it doesn't depend...
...seeing the future of the TV talk show, and it is, well, funky. The Arsenio Hall Show, a weeknightly joyride on 167 stations nationwide, is less a talk show than a televised party: hip, hyperkinetic and hot. The host can't sit still, and the crowd can't get enough of him. At any moment, Hall might race into the studio audience in response to a shouting fan, or sidle over to his five-piece house band ("my posse") for some impromptu jamming. Meanwhile, as late-night's first successful black talk host, he has turned his guest couch into...
...division within the ranks of journalism is between the majority who support all-out war against the drug lords and those, notably the owners of Medellin's El Colombiano, who prefer a negotiated truce. In 1984, when he was still editor of the paper, Juan Gomez Martinez wrote, "To sit down with these despicable people, who are wanted by justice, is dishonest. It would twist the values of our country. It is an immoral and terrifying proposition." Gomez -- whose title became publisher when he was elected mayor of Medellin in 1988 -- has turned into a leading advocate of government bargaining...
...star can't sit still, and the audience can't get enough of him. On the guest couch, rap groups rub elbows with Hollywood stars. Johnny Carson's newest challenger has grabbed a young audience by dusting off the stodgy talk format and holding a weeknightly party. Be there or be square...