Word: stern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thus Carter and Reagan last week issued separate but equally stern warnings to the Soviets on Poland. Said Carter: "The attitude and future policies of the United States toward the Soviet Union would be directly and very adversely affected by any Soviet use of force in Poland." Allen declared that the consequences of a Soviet invasion of Poland "could border on wrecking relations [with the U.S.] for a long time. Business as usual after such a profound event could not easily be restored...
...Berlin Requiem presented on stage might prove a worthwhile experiment; but on a double bill it undercuts its competition, turning its audience from theater-goers into listeners. Between the stern, subterranean gloom of the Requiem and the moral topology of The Seven Deadly Sins, the evening of theater becomes oppressive--more oppressive than necessary, even to portray Brecht's oppression-filled world...
...factor as any other in causing the industry-wide malaise. The commission did not. The three members who formed the majority (all of whom happen to drive foreign cars) judged that the business slump and the rising popularity of gas-sipping models were more to blame. Said Commissioner Paula Stern, 35, a Carter appointee and former legislative aide in the Senate: "I have found that economic conditions-recession, the credit crunch, rising costs of car ownership-and a major, unprecedented shift in demand from large to small cars brought the domestic industry to its present weakened state...
...Neill survived with only token opposition. But Majority Leader Jim Wright, who has spent 25 years in Congress and aspires to succeed the Speaker when O'Neill retires, barely beat back a stern challenge in Fort Worth from conservative Republican Jim Bradshaw, who was strongly backed by some wealthy oilmen. But the third man in the Democratic hierarchy, Whip John Brademas, 53, of Indiana, lost his bid for a twelfth term to Businessman John Hiler. The attractive, young (27), conservative Hiler convinced the voters of his district, which includes South Bend, that Brademas, because of his leadership position...
...invoking God's immediate intervention for the sake of a fatter collection plate. She is a sensible Kansas widow, retrieved from a brush with death, who restores health "in the name of love." Love is all she wants to give to the two men in her life: her stern pa (Roberts Blossom), who responds to her proffered caress both as a seduction and a slap, and a young rake (Sam Shepard), who is at first liberated by her power and then consumed...