Word: standing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much for the campaign. So much for running an issues-based offensive against your opponent. You're stuck with defending your record--your college record, that is. Everything from your S.A.T. scores to your dispute with a section leader over a grade to the one-night stand you tried to forget everytime you saw your classmate in the hall...
...expect to find subtle performances in this surreal treat. Russell, the criminally beautiful slut-goddess of art-house movies, becomes shrill in the upper registers of emotion. And Oldman is so acutely the rotten kid that you may want to stand him in the corner. These are not heroes to cherish: they are tiny figures on a Blue Velvet landscape, bleating out their obsessions. But in their cries is the music of recognizable people with their defenses down and their lurid nightmares ascendant. In Track 29 every woman is a flower demanding to open, and every man is a little...
...Seoul, like London or Tokyo, one of those capitals that live behind veils and screens; the city wears its emotions on its streets. Everywhere one is grabbed by shoves and shouts and smells and smiles. Here is a city that does not stand -- or even sit -- on ceremony. The area around the stately old South Gate is a swarm of vendors. Ask a girl for Chanel, and she will produce an elegant package for $100. Protest the price, and she will instantly draw out another box: Shanel -- for less than...
...Jackie reached the final turn, Al was suddenly alongside her, running in silhouette on the grass. By .33 sec., just about a step, she lost the gold medal. Totaling 6,385 points to Nunn's 6,390, Jackie came off the silver stand almost directly into Al's arms. "It's O.K.," he comforted her, and she smiled. "I'm not crying because I lost," she said. "I'm crying because you won." That night in East St. Louis, the streets filled up the way they used to in Detroit after a Joe Louis fight. Everyone came out to sing...
...East Germany's recreational athletes resent the millions dedicated to the elite. East German stars would like the state to take a smaller share of the millions they earn in Western appearance fees. Consider the revolutionary statement of World Class Sprinter Silke Moller last month. "Material concerns should never stand in the foreground in sports," said Moller. "But they can play a role, even for G.D.R. athletes...