Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Through Tommy's wide eyes, most of humanity's sins and sorrows pass in review: his mother's adultery, his grandmother's illness, the pain and death that can attend all ages and circumstances. Grownups try to keep him from the ravages of knowledge. Tommy's mother tersely declares, "We bury the dead and then we get on with it ... Grief is something we carry inside us - here, get into your snowsuit - it's not polite to inflict it on others." But there is no escaping from natural law. Tommy learns to place...
...reasonable facsimile of one of her own adventuresses lost in the Colombian jungle. Michael Douglas plays the footloose fellow who helps her decipher the enigmas of her libido and the map that leads to the buried treasure. Their path is strewn with kidnapers, dope smugglers, sadistic policemen and a wide variety of unpleasant reptiles. But Director Zemeckis pushes them along at a pace that disarms disbelief, while realizing the full satirical values of Diane Thomas' brisk thrusts at adventure-film conventions. Douglas graciously concedes the movie to Turner, the wild and steamy lady of Body Heat, who demonstrates that...
...mobile professionals). By any label, younger, more affluent, better-educated voters appear to have embraced Gary Hart's "new generation" politics. On Super Tuesday, they provided Hart with his most consistent support, according to NBC exit polls. In Georgia, for instance, Hart lost overall but led by a wide margin among 25-to 34-year-olds (28% to 19%), college graduates (29% to 20%) and those earning more than $40,000 (37% to 25%). Conceded a top Mondale aide: "There's little question about the numbers...
...trial has drawn wide publicity because of its sensational aspects, including the fact that six men were involved and that the rape occurred in the midst of cheering onlookers. The media attention has surely been personally damaging to the victim, but the ultimate value of the publicity to society may outweigh her pain...
Because Question Three was passed by such a wide margin, legislators are reluctant to ammend or rescind...