Word: spheres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tracey's life moves along merrily in its limited sphere until she encounters Johnny Rourke (Aidan Quinn) at a high school dance. Repeated shots of Rourke reviving up his motorcycle, along with scenes of him fighting with his alcoholic father show--in conventional. Hollywood style--that Rourke is from the other side of the tracks. Propelled by a sexual attraction she is just beginning to understand. Tracey follows Rourke on a program of rebellion and destruction that culminates in their escape from a high school Career Day on Rourke's motorcycle: complete with Tracey's friends calling her names...
November 15--Returning briefly to his official sphere as Dean, Watt issues a statement strongly urging that no new courses be added to the Core Curriculum, "lest this Core put out Leaves, and grow like a green thing...
...Afghanistan and the imposition of martial law in Poland in 1981, the Soviet Union volubly denounced the U.S. moves but did not so much as hint at military action in retaliation. This underlined a rule of U.S.-Soviet competition that neither side will ever acknowledge publicly: each has a sphere of interest that the other respects...
...economic sphere, International Monetary Fund (IMF) statistics from 1979 show that South African trade with Israel is miniscule when compared to South African trade with other parts of the world. Israel ranks seventeenth in receiving South African exports (.5 percent of exports) and twenty-third in supplying its imports (.4 percent of imports). The major western industrial nations (the U.S., U.K., Japan and West Germany) are at the top of the list. Forty-six of fifty-two members of the Organization of African unity have commercial relations with South Africa. So much for Louis' U.S.-Israel-South Africa "axis...
...versus a group of friends sitting on a couch, smiling encouragingly, waving brightly-coloured plastic baseball bats." It is here that Pesetsky's wisdom lies; rather than offer epigram, dogma, or role model, she generally keeps her characters' lives firmly within the Barnum & Bailey's that is their natural sphere...