Word: smiling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unquestionable," on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, antiacademic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous--that smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbarities, the truly monumental achievements of the Middle Ages have become too vast for us to cope with, or even understand; we are too small and too afraid." Let me offer this as an ideal opening sentence to any question even...
...Frances Lear has a serious enemy, it is the youth culture, which she blames for confining some women to birdcage existences. "Many older women are inhibited and afraid to act. It is such a waste of human potential," she laments. "We must look into the mirror and smile." She caustically castigates the youth culture for denying sexuality to mature women and instilling in them a sense of inferiority. Her frequent fantasy is to annihilate the Playboy magazine mentality that she blames for psychologically crippling women by attaching a Playmate's age and dimensions to female sexuality. "Someday we will have...
...Gorbachev is the architect of "new thinking" in international affairs, Shevardnadze is his master builder. Like the General Secretary, the amiable, white-haired diplomat has a smile that can melt ice. And like Gorbachev, Shevardnadze sometimes shows a glint of iron teeth. Thanks, in part, to Shevardnadze's diplomatic labors, Soviet tanks and troops have been withdrawn from Afghanistan and are being partially withdrawn from Eastern Europe. A whole class of nuclear weapons has been marked for destruction under the INF treaty signed in 1987. As the Soviets and their allies disentangle themselves from conflicts in Namibia and Cambodia, they...
...fantasy begins as you enter the gate and step onto Hollywood Boulevard. No teen hookers or creepy vibes here. That's just reality. On Disney-MGM's main street, the billboard proclaims HOLLYWOODLAND, BEDROOM COMMUNITY OF THE INNOCENT PAST. The corner gas station dispenses "service with a smile," and Mickey's of Hollywood peddles nothing racier than T shirts with a mouse emblem. Even the local sanitation man (one of many character types crowding the street like Preston Sturges comedy characters) has refined tastes. "I collect only the garbage of the stars," he proclaims with delicious snoot. Hollywaste. Tinsel trash...
...looked haggard, and he told reporters wryly, "I believe I have had easier times." But he made himself conspicuous, bustling about the halls of Congress and on at least two occasions visiting the White House, most of the time wearing a defiant grin; like many politicians, he can smile on cue, whatever his inner feelings. He emerged from a closed meeting of the Democratic Caucus to report, "I told them I intend to fight and I intend to win." He renewed a demand that the ethics committee call a hearing at which he could state his case publicly (Wright...