Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beautiful effect Kirkland and Mckenzie performed brilliantly. They seemed to be perfectly suited to each other and never seemed to exert any effects while turning or jumping. When Mckenzie would lift kirkland her body just seemed to rise in his hands naturally. She appeared fragile but danced with a strength and precision that few artists possess...
...report presented to government officials earlier this week. Warburg Professor of Economics Otto Eckstein blamed American industrial woes on the high cost of capital and the strength of the U.S. dollar...
...Vienna instead of Geneva are the MFBR (Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction) talks. As the name partially implies, these talks have been aimed at limiting non-nuclear-forces-in Europe to reduce tension, which the West believes stems from an estimated 3 to 1 Eastern advantage in overall conventional strength...
...more hawkish American and Europeans, No First Use offers the promise of increased conventional military strength, though critics of the proposal correctly point out that a conventional build-up will be extremely costly and unpopular. However, any increased reliance on conventional rather than nuclear weapons lessens the danger of Armageddon, and that should be worth the financial burden...
...misplaced. In the old noirs, women were mostly seen as black widow spiders, luring the wimpish male toward his doom. Placing a new, healthy vision of female strength in the old context is a beguiling notion. Not that Truffaut lingers over his cleverness in providing recall with a subtext. Mostly he is concerned with driving his vehicle along at a great pace, so that no one notices the occasional knocks in the engine or the potholes in the plot. With help from his cinematographer, Nestor Almendros, who perfectly captures the sleazy artiness of those long-ago B pictures, Truffaut runs...