Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talk of "glasnost" and "perestroika," Gorbachev maintains the iron hand of authoritarian government. The communist regime still does not grant its own citizens freedom of speech, association or the press. Thousands of Soviet citizens continue to fill Russia's jails, mental hospitals and slave labor camps because of their political and religious beliefs...
ANOTHER relief is that Mamet does a much better job mimicking the cadences of the criminals' speech. He even begins to write in some jokes. (One of the con men talks about being a member of "the United States of Kiss My Ass.") As in some of his plays, such as American Buffalo and especially Glengarry Glen Ross, Mamet is fascinated with the underworld businessman. Mamet's crooks have most of the same qualities of normal nine to fivers. Their business is riskier but it has its own rules and its own drudgery...
...speech earlier yesterday, Reagan vowed to press Gorbachev on human rights problems, saying that political prisoners, dissidents and divided spouses will be "unseen guests" at the summit...
...speech to 185 human rights activitists, Reagan said, "We see the violation of anyone's human rights, acts of repression or brutality, as attacks on civilization itself...
Funniest of all is Blackstone, who always shines, whether aping Ellard's childlike movement and speech, inventing a gobbledygook foreign language, pretending to hoodoo Owen, or simply staring forward with his forlorn puppy eyes in feigned ignorance or injury. The Foreigner is essentially Blackstone's show, and he carries it off triumphantly. He and the rest of the cast really make the Shue...