Word: telling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moonstruck's tale of tangled love triangles (Cher's is not the only one) can be highly entertaining, despite a cast of mediocre actors. But it is difficult to tell whether much of the parody that makes the film so enjoyable is intended or not. It is enjoyable nonetheless...
...Book and the Brotherhood is Iris Murdoch's 23rd novel. That number alone does not fully convey the amazing range of her productivity. For as seasoned Murdoch readers can attest, she has seldom been content simply to tell one story at a time. Her fiction typically doubles up, offering both explicit and subterranean tales. On the surface, civilized, well-educated characters move about in theoretical freedom, working out their destinies according to the dictates of reason and plausibility. But actually they are in thrall to hidden forces, submerged patterns, in danger of being swallowed up, say, by the plot...
...think they have AIDS are not going to be very interested in getting their arm punched just for the hell of it." Notes Dr. James Brown, director of student health services at the University of California, Berkeley: "I don't think doing it on one campus is going to tell you anything." The President reportedly introduced the idea of testing college students last summer at a Cabinet meeting, where it was strongly opposed...
...have already sworn to sink the package. Meanwhile, Ortega pledged in a speech the day after the vote that Nicaragua would oppose any form of nonmilitary aid to the contras and made the outrageous claim that "we now have full democracy and full freedom of expression in this country." Tell that to the 9 000 political prisoners in Nicaragua and the still heavily-censored editors of La Prensa, the Nicaraguan opposition newspaper...
...That was really Ferraro?" asked Patrick W. O'Kelly II '90. "I was skeptical because going downstairs last night, she said `hi' to my mother and I didn't believe that it was Geraldine Ferraro," he said. "I'm going to have to call my mother and tell...