Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan mantle slip from his trim frame, never strayed far from the base camp of Reagan policy and Reagan philosophy. When he did utter some minor heresy, it was a denial rather than an assertion. "I want to add here," he said almost parenthetically in one major speech, "that I do not hate government. I'm proud of my long experience in government." That was supposed to be a sign that he was inching toward the future rather than wallowing in the past. But the line disappeared from subsequent speeches. Instead, over and over, Bush hailed the Chief. Occasionally some...
Shawn Hainsworth gives a wonderful performance as Tom, the highlight of which is when Amanda confronts Tom about his job at the warehouse. Hainsworth exercises amazing control as he begins his speech in a conversational tone and then gradually builds the emotion in his voice to a powerhouse level which reverberates through the Cage and reduces the audience to silent admiration. In this one speech he is able to communicate his raging inner conflict between his loyalties to his mother and to his own desires...
...speech entitled "Women in Public Office: The Opportunities," Ferraro told an audience of 200 that she had decided to imitate President Reagan in borrowing her comments from the movies. The line was from "Chariots of Fire," a film about two Olympic runners. Using a second line from the movie, she said women who do not win at first should remember to "beat him next time...
Poetry and photography came together in that instant, and the connection of the two was the topic of Ginsberg's speech on photographic poets in the second of three lectures sponsored by the Friends of the Harvard Art Museums called Focus on Photography...
...governor's bill, but let me tell you at every street corner in America he will declare it as his bill," Senate Assistant Minority Leader David Locke said in a floor speech to block swift consideration of the bill...