Word: somberly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's end South Korea buried Park with a somber, five-hour state funeral punctuated by wailing sirens. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and President Carter's son Chip joined representatives from 42 countries. The presence of the opposition party leader Kim Young Sam was evidence that the mourning period had brought South Koreans a time of political truce. A traumatic bloodbath was behind them, but they had every right to be apprehensive about its uncertain consequences...
With Joe Restic at the pulpit, the offense on the alter and the defense manning the gallows, the Puritan spirit will rise again victorious. The Multiflex playbook will be the new Bay Psalm Book; and the men in somber black and white uniforms, with broad-brimmed helmets, will lead the way to New England purity--surmounting the invaders and eliminating the heathens...
...mood in Timilty's Parker House headquarters was relatively somber, as guests milled about and forced smiles onto their faces...
Dressed in somber gray suits and minus 25 Ibs. (thanks to a low-fat diet), he stressed pet schemes: overhaul the fiscal and monetary system, rebuild the cities, renew the space program, balance the federal budget, protect the environment, phase out nuclear energy. Says Brown: "The Democratic Party is headed for defeat in November unless it comes up with the answers for the decline in our economy, the decline of our technology...
Paris (Sept. 29, CBS, 10 p.m.). The good James Earl Jones, last seen in Roots 2, is an actor whose somber presence of ten gives way to humanizing bursts of humor. The bad James Earl Jones is so unrelievedly grave he could turn an audience to stone. This series, which casts Jones as Police Detective Woody Paris, brings out the actor's worst. Watching Paris explain his crime-solving logic is about as much fun as hearing an insurance sales pitch. The show's troubles do not end there. The supporting cast is amateurish, and the identity...