Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That message was easy to lose sight of in a year when so much happened that was treated like it meant so little. But for one brief period, people cared and cut through the minutiae--a Supreme Court seat was denied to a man who had spoken out against civil rights and denounced landmark equal access legislation. But in an irony that was befitting for the year, and surely gave pleasure to the cynics who invented that bumper sticker slogan, Bork was successfully followed by a jurist who, once confirmed, cast a vote challenging the core of federal civil rights...
...mhome, either. But I mean this in more than just acultural sense. It's bothered me that I've neverfelt I could duplicate at college the friendshipsI had at home. It seems to me a physical, mentaland temporal impossiblity. There are kids I grewup with who I've not spoken to or socialized within years. Yet were I to get together with themtoday, I would still feel that I knew them betterthan I know anybody here...
...glasnost, as some Westerners who have met her suggest? Or is she a hard-line ideologue, as others report? At a dinner with ^ the Reagans during the 1985 Geneva summit, Raisa launched into a lengthy and pedantic monologue on Soviet policy. After the Gorbachevs left, Nancy Reagan may have spoken for the other guests when she fumed, within hearing of then White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan, "Who does that dame think...
...sipped their cafe con leche and bit hungrily into freshly baked Cuban bread spread thick with butter. Wax-lined baskets of bollitos, deep- fried balls of ground black-eyed peas, were passed around. "Eat, eat. No ^ diets allowed here," they coaxed one another in Spanish. Still, their well- spoken English is an accented blend of Southern drawl and Latin staccato...
...that facial muscles are the only ones that do not require constant workouts. It's the same way with conversation, which he obviously worries might interrupt the awed contemplation of his beauty. A lowball estimate indicates that, not counting grunts and groans, the star collected about $500,000 per spoken sentence on this film. All this staring and gawking somewhat slows the action, which is more crudely orchestrated than in the previous Rambo adventures...