Word: successful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yesterday, the up-and-coming activists achieved success...
...Success...
...government is trying to calm the dangerous situation, but so far with little success. The House of Commons began debating whether all uninsured deposits at the two failed banks, meaning all those larger than $60,000, should be given federal protection. John Turner, leader of the opposition Liberal Party, argued against it. "Is there now to be an implicit government guarantee to bail out future depositors in any difficulty?" he asked. The banking failures are exacerbating the political troubles of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Two Cabinet members recently resigned; one of them faces possible charges of misappropriating campaign funds...
...still fond of material possessions--the man is a walking jewelry display case--and he feels conspicuous success is an asset when it comes to winning souls. It says, look what I have achieved...
...Hollywood that capered through the Depression, Welles introduced the cinema of melancholy. With Citizen Kane--a tale of power and love, and the loss of both--American film found the dark, seductive side of its own success story. For the next decade, domestic dramas, spy pictures and detective thrillers would be shrouded in expressionist shadows and shot with oblique camera angles. Kane's multiple-narrator format announced that no one was to be trusted with the whole truth; the camera could lie too, and we would have to decide whether to believe it. Welles dragged the movies into modernism, with...