Word: souped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...public does not understand the alphabet soup of things that are strangling us. The Government, for example, drilled 60 holes while exploring in the federal petroleum reserve in Alaska. Nobody stopped it or interfered. But now that there is discussion about private industry's undertaking the job, there are all kinds of noises about the need for environmental impact statements. We do need Government control, but not this laborious paperwork and red tape that cause such delay...
...matters beyond the realm of concern this summer. There is one other big-league team around--the New England Tea Men of the North American Soccer League (formerly known as the Minutemen until purchased by Lipton, the present nickname can be attributed to the fact that "Cup of Soup Men" would presumably have been historically inappropriate). The Tea Men are locked into the Eastern Division of the NASL's American Conference, dominated by a pair of strong Florida entries from Tampa Bay and Fort Lauderdale. No one pays much attention to their plight...
...time of stress, economic policy may need more psychological input than mathematical analysis. Our very economic success also makes it tougher to pick up the nation's economic tremors quickly. Treasury Spokesman Joseph Laitin points out that we do not have the foreclosures, soup lines, dispossessions and other instant aftershocks from economic swings that used to send signals racing through the political system. Letdowns are more gentle, often hard to detect in the salubrious environment of the Oval Office...
Papier-mâché roses decked the dusty streets of the capital. Free bouillon and clairin-soup and rum-were distributed to the populace. But for most Haitians there was little to celebrate. Not only is the island nation the poorest in the Western Hemisphere, but for 22 years it has chafed under a succession of Duvalier dictatorships. Accordingly, some 55,000 Haitian "boat people" have made the 800-mile crossing to Florida, most of them as illegal immigrants. Unlike the Cubans recently arrived, the Haitians do not enjoy the status of political refugees...
...unlike Grass' novel, Schlondorff's film refuses to tie these ugly images together; time has strange dimensions and the laudably meticulous attention to detail--violent and spectacular--leaves us empty. The Tin Drum is full of disturbing moments: Oskar is forced to drink a stone and urine soup; eels slither from the mouth of a slimy horse head; a hand pokes out of a coffin made of packing crates. These images fade in time, however, unlike the icy symbolism of Fassbinder's Marriage of Maria Braun, which treated modern German history with cinematic cynicism...