Word: standing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Patrick's Cathedral on New York City's Fifth Avenue. "You bigot, O'Connor, you're killing us!" yelled one protester. Others stretched out in the aisles or chained themselves to pews. As police tried vainly to restore order, the Cardinal cut through the din. "Does everybody care to stand and pray?" he asked. In response the parishioners rose and chanted the Lord's Prayer at the top of their voices. As the service went on, police arrested 43 demonstrators, and carried many out on stretchers when they refused to stand. Churchgoers who dodged the chaos in the aisles...
Questions of leadership pop up frequently. Disappointed by Michael Dukakis' refusal "to stand on his hind legs and fight," Mamet drafts a strong and dignified speech that he and the reader would have liked to hear the Democratic candidate deliver. As a playwright, he argues that actors and directors should not freely interpret his scripts; as a film director (House of Games) he discovers that contrary to the cliche that making movies is a collaborative business, the enterprise is and must be strictly hierarchical. Having succeeded in the theatrical rat race against committees and long odds, it is not surprising...
...quavering voice, Sakharov urged the more than 2,000 parliamentarians to change the agenda of the meeting and discuss deleting articles from the constitution that stand in the way of urgently needed economic reforms. Disapproving murmurs rumbled through the hall. Was Sakharov trying to derail the proceedings? Why was he wasting time with such matters? An impatient Gorbachev finally cut Sakharov off in mid-sentence: "I have the impression that you don't know how to realize your suggestions -- and we don't either...
...subdued Gorbachev looked on, Politburo member Vitali Vorotnikov opened the next day's session of the Congress by asking the Deputies to stand in a moment of silent tribute. Considering the abuse that was once heaped on the former dissident, Vorotnikov's words of praise groaned with irony. "Everything that Sakharov did," he said, "was dictated by his keen conscience and profound humanistic convictions." Whatever bitterness Sakharov's friends may have felt about the way he was treated in the past, the authorities, at least, tried to make amends. An official obituary published on Saturday in the party daily, Pravda...
...Manila's financial district squeaked away from a showdown that might have turned it into a Southeast Asian Beirut, the President essayed a show of strength by reaching for the People Power that brought her to office. Still, in tacit disobedience to Aquino's stand against a negotiated end to hostilities, her military did not so much quell the coup as reconcile with those who had come closer than ever to unseating her. Even before the latest coup ended, plots were being hatched for the next stage of the rebellion, one the planners are certain will bring about Aquino...