Word: upsetting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Grabbing my camera and umbrella, I rain outside to the rally. While I did wind up talking with the man with a megaphone, whom I presume was a member of the Socialist party, I was upset to see so few people at the procession. For a city some claim is over 25 million strong, I thought, surely more than a few hundred people were in opposition to the PRI, which has been in power for decades...
...troubled by Attorney General Edwin Meese's determination to stay in office and by the Administration's inept negotiations with Panamanian Strongman Antonio Noriega. A man who dislikes confrontation, Baker was often reluctant to argue a position with the President. But he maintains that he was not upset by a failure to sway Reagan. "The President makes his own decisions," says Baker. "I've never been disappointed if he goes some other course. All that has nothing to do with my decision to leave the Administration...
...soon becomes clear that this is not the perfect family it appears to be. Mommy and Daddy are upset that they have no children, but they are given to occasional moments of cruelty that would render them unfit to be parents anyway. They also have TV-sized attention spans and short memories. Mommy is catty and shrewish. Daddy is timorous and impotent...
...only slighty less so--in both plays, important questions are left unanswered until the final moments). It also has only two characters. Peter (Eric Oleson), a bland, upper middle-class man much like Daddy, reads and smokes a pipe on a park bench. Jerry (Daniel O'Keefe), an alienated, upset man, confronts Peter and tries to communicate with him and draw forth any sign of life from Jerry's passionless existence...
...voters queued up at the ballot boxes on Sunday, it appeared that they were ready to oblige the President. Weekend polls gave the Socialists a projected margin of ten to 25 seats beyond the 289 needed for a majority. Although no one was ruling out the possibility of an upset by the conservatives, it appeared the Socialists were more successful at getting out the vote. For Premier Michel Rocard, a moderate Socialist whose government includes a few non-Socialists, a clear majority would mean that he could finally present the National Assembly with a legislative program intended to prepare...