Word: expressing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Trinidadians traditionally express their political feelings in satirical calypso songs. Prime Minister A.N.R. Robinson won a landslide four years ago to the tune of Captain, the Ship Is Sinking, a telling commentary on the island nation's economic decline. But the conservative Robinson almost lost the helm himself last week, when a group of fanatic black Muslims took him and 54 others hostage in an attempt to bring down the government...
Professionally, Gilliam runs his quintet like a dictatorship, repeatedly squashing members' attempts to express themselves and justifying his behavior by the fact that he is the star. "It's my name on the marquee," he tells Shadow (Wesley Snipes), who is arguably as talented as Gilliam. "When your name is on the marquee, you can run things your way." Gilliam continually refuses to fire the group's manager, childhood friend Giant (Lee), despite the latter's obvious ineffectiveness and serious gambling problems...
...provision)) would express a decision by society, speaking through the legislature, to leave it to individual justices . . . to make fundamental moral decisions about the interests of other people without any standards to guide the individual judge . . . There are some judges who believe that abortion . . . is morally wrong, who could not in good conscience issue an order requiring an abortion to be performed. There are others who believe that what may be thought to be in the "best interests" of the pregnant minor is itself just as necessarily a moral as a social question, upon which a judge may not morally...
...each day in your mailbox, you should see the baskets of junkmail that we get at newspapers. There are announcements from banks, luring offers from syndication companies, free issues of socialist newletters, poetry, notices from credit card card companies prepared to honor various reporters with their very own American Express, and buckets of press releases crafted by the public relations industry to resemble news. After the news editor has combed out the few snippets of honest-to-goodness news from the pile, he hands it to us for our perusal...
...other officers and directors of Denver's Silverado Banking, Savings and Loan Association, Neil Bush replaced Charles Keating as the S&L poster boy. His father interrupted his final press conference at the Houston economic summit to defend the besieged 35-year-old Denver businessman. "What father wouldn't express a certain confidence in the honor of his son?" asked the President as his voice cracked with emotion. "If the system finds he's done something wrong, he will be the first to step up and do what's right...