Word: strains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...benefit screening of the film based on her book. "I think of this movie as a gift to you," Walker told the audience of friends and family. "You've shown some very beautiful values to the world. And you've done so under incredible conditions of strain and stress. I'm so proud...
...officers accused of crimes in the dirty war--and a separate trial, now under way, of Galtieri and two other junta members for mismanaging the Falklands war--will stir up more debate over who bears the ultimate responsibility for the ghosts of the past. The trials may also further strain the patience of the military, which may be weakened but is still a potentially powerful force in Argentine affairs. Most important, Alfonsin will have his hands full trying to strengthen the spirit of democracy in his country. "In Argentina, we are dealing with 55 years of democratic crises," said Alfred...
Among the younger designers, jokes tend to be about the future, but a future as it was conceived in a more hopeful past. It is a neat trick. This strain of the new-wave sensibility is an ironic mixture of nostalgia and contempt, simultaneously mock futurist and mock historicist. The allusions are to old television and B movies. At the Whitney, Dakota Jackson's UFO-shaped Saturn stool (1976) and R.M. Fischer's enormous, intimidating Max lamp (1983) are like fakey props from 1950s science-fiction films. Burton's saw-toothed aluminum chair (1980-81) seems to be a throne...
...This is the boringest stall! Strain your wits, women...
...That's the worstest grammar!! Strain your English, woman...