Word: vein
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...television interview last week, a besieged Premier Laurent Fabius credited reporters with helping clear up "this unfortunate affair," noting that "it is they who have opened the floodgates to a vein of lies that existed...
...sharing of needles among people who inject drugs into their bodies intravenously. An AIDS victim passes a needle to another drug abuser who uses it immediately; blood on the needle enters the second narcotics user's vein. Some 14% of the men and 53% of the much smaller number of women who have contracted AIDS in the U.S. got it this...
...half of Europe along the way) the Griswalds are ready to return home, with dreams of the good of U.S. of A in their heads, ridiculous-looking touristy Italian clothes on their bodies, and about half-a-dozen warrants for their arrest. And in the movie's monotonously silly vein Chevy causes the plane to dip and veer such that it knocks down the torch from the Statue of Liberty...
...military action. But those criticisms were balanced by grudging commendations from some of Reagan's most severe critics. For example, New York Times Columnist Anthony Lewis, who rarely finds anything good to say about the Administration, wrote that "Mr. Reagan deserves praise" for his restraint. In a more partisan vein, the College Republican National Committee began selling, for $1 each, red and white buttons with the simple message "427 DAYS." That is the difference between the 444 days of captivity endured by the hostages seized at the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979 and the 17 days that...
...wickedly complex movie is not to be taken literally. It is not an inside look at organized crime any more than it is a study of the joys and dangers of sexual obsession. It is a parable of generational conflict in Director Huston's most sardonic (or Asphalt Jungle) vein. Its basic irony derives from the fact that the Prizzi hoods, colorfully impersonated by such welcome old pros as William Hickey, Robert Loggia and Lee Richardson, represent, despite their line of work, traditional values. They take the long, institutional view of their enterprise, understanding that its greatest asset...