Word: sweeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pedicab parked in the lobby, menus bound in batik, hostesses in flowing Indonesian gowns. At night, when native dancers perform, the restaurant's prices are high, but the buffet lunch is a bargain: for $5.50, guests can take their pick of dozens of spicy (skewered beef) or sweet (banana soup) dishes. For some executives from nearby oil-company offices, however, the food must have a bitter taste these days. According to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the restaurant was built largely with money "coerced" out of U.S. companies by the former head of Pertamina, the Indonesian government oil company...
...expiatory effect. From the various mythic provinces of TV, which may be the densest core of American imagination now, are gathered a virtuous and likable group of heroes: Pa Cartwright from the Ponderosa, Lou Grant from The Mary Tyler Moore Show, affable Sergeant Enright from MacMillan and Wife and sweet Sandy Duncan from the apartment upstairs. But in Roots, they all turn counterfeit-treacherous, violent and contemptible. Only one white, Old George, is sympathetic. The blacks are noble and enduring, even forbearing when given a chance for revenge (Tom's opportunity to whip one of his white bosses). However...
...often zany scenes. "After years of crying for him," says Liv Ullmann, who plays Manuela, the nightclub entertainer whom Carradine loves, "Ingmar has finally allowed me to sing and dance." Wearing the scantiest of costumes, Ullmann was ordered to perform badly a bawdy German ballad called I Have a Sweet Bonbon for the audience of the sleazy cabaret called the Blue Mule...
...have sweet little ladies who won't let their dogs out at night, yet they say 'My God, you're against the death penalty?' Ross said...
...loss was not exactly a sweet one for Skidmore, whose antics in the net bordered on the unbelievable for most of the game. Rejecting 27 Harvard shots in the first 40 minutes and 30 in the entire game, the heralded sophomore carried the nation's sixth-ranked team to the brink of victory before relenting under pressure in the final minutes...