Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...foreigner. But I live here, I study here and I love this country for all the opportunities it is giving me. And it saddens me to see what America has come to. I can no longer stand idly by while the impeachment process takes place. I want to speak my mind. I want to defend the President...
...figured if I could get in there and show them what I did, the merits would speak for themselves...
...added that the business had difficulty because proprietor Jeong W. Kim "couldn't speak English, which was unfortunate...
...come under extra scrutiny. "The idea," says Isaacs, was "to tell the story of the cold war not wrapped in Old Glory but from the viewpoints of both protagonists." The neutral tone may perturb those who desire more explicit condemnation, but the facts about the Soviets are allowed to speak for themselves. "It comes loud and clear," says Gaddis, "that there were great moral deficiencies in the Soviet empire." As for the portrayal of the U.S., there may be some lapses in perspective--in the episode on the McCarthy era, for example, it is unfortunate that the filmmakers found...
...Karen Croner and director Carl Franklin, contains lots of true things about that process. For it immerses us in the awful, vertiginous panic that attends a death in the family--the fierce-wistful attempts to maintain routines in the face of this most exigent of interruptions; the desire to speak certain truths before it's too late and the fear of what consequences such candor might have; the politesse with which you must cover the outrage you feel as the rest of the world glides on about its business while an important part of yours is painfully, poignantly shutting down...