Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Most visitors to Mapplethorpe's controversial "The Perfect Moment" arrive eager to discover for themselves exactly what sort of art manages to get Jesse Helms so uptight. In this instance, they usually leave with the perception that it does not take much. Helms' charges that the pictures are pornographic can only reflect his artistic ignorance and socially illiteracy...
Prothrow-Stith said yesterday that she is "very excited" about the appointment, adding that she has been eager for some time to get back into working with issues of public health. After she left the State House in 1989, Prothrow-Stith worked for eight months in the private sector, as the vice president and medical director for Community Care Systems...
...disputed 100-mile frontier. Saddam also wants Kuwait to forgive Iraq's war loans and lease or cede to Baghdad the strategic island of Bubiyan, a large sandbar in the Persian Gulf that blocks much of Iraq's paltry 18 miles of shoreline. No one believes Iraq is actually eager to invade Kuwait to achieve these ends if they can be accomplished through coercion instead. But just the threat of an incursion may be enough to make Kuwait, with its puny military, accede to Iraq's terms...
...nagging feeling of deja vu that plagues the viewer throughout The Freshman obscures some of the film's considerable accomplishments. The Freshman is about the rather rude introduction Clark Kellogg gets to the big city. Eager to start his first year at NYU Film School, he arrives at Grand Central Station and is immediately conned out of all his money and possessions by Victor Ray (Bruno Kirby). Kellogg meets up with Ray again and in order to make up for his past wrongs, offers him a job working for his uncle, Carmine Sabatini, a prominent importer with dubious business dealings...
...experts led by Pipes, challenged the agency's more sanguine estimates of Soviet intentions and capabilities. In 1980 Bush admitted he had never favored the Team-B exercise. "It was forced on me by the White House," said Bush. By most accounts the President preferred abolishing PFIAB, but was eager to avoid a predicted congressional uproar. Recasting PFIAB so that its focus will probably be narrow represents the path of least resistance -- a politically clever but intellectually shortsighted move. Bush doesn't need intelligence reports that induce sleep; he needs the kind of thought-provoking analysis that can substitute...