Word: flaunts
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...buys" lunch. Agutter's role is most difficult, for she is not given such an opportunity to step away from her job as walking chess piece. Only in the early love scenes with Jerry can she display any character at all, and there she can only laugh and sparkle, flaunt her yellow shirt and red skirt that are the only bright colors we see all evening...
...consider lifting martial law when the April 6 Movement--which the dictator contends is linked to Aquino--pulled its convention bombing, and conspicuously called into question Marcos' capacity to maintain peace and order. The guerillas stopped short of assassinating Marcos (it appears they easily could have), preferring instead to flaunt their havoc-wreaking. For his part, Aquino denied any connection with the April 6 Movement, a fact even acknowledged by the terrorists who declared him their leader "even though he hasn't yet recognized...
Claypoolers straggle through the 40-ft. bookmobile for 2½ hours-young and middle-aged adults, children with and without parents, and a good many grandparents. Inside, shelves flaunt 6,000 paperback volumes of fact, fiction and fancy, skinny picture books for preschoolers, fat classics for the solemn. The "Hardy Boys." The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. A Child's Garden of Verses. Mark Twain. Sinclair Lewis. Bernard Malamud. Dreiser's An American Tragedy. Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich. But which one to pick...
...mile stretch of lakefront along Chicago's suburban North Shore is one of the richest areas in the nation, with family income of $60,000 a median. Teen-agers there grow up in well-manicured neighborhoods, attend first-rate colleges and flaunt the trappings of affluence; many drive around in Mercedes. Yet for such youths, there is trouble in paradise. Among local therapists, the area is known as "the suicide belt." In a 17-month period ending last summer, 28 teen-agers took their own lives. Eighteen died by gunshot, eight by hanging and two by lying down...
...very least, Tonight offers readers a needed alternative to the Post, which has used its once exclusive position as the only general afternoon daily in town to flaunt the Murdoch formula: skirting serious news while playing up sex, celebrity gossip and crime. The formula has paid some dividends; circulation is up 30,000 over the past year, to 654,000, though the Post still costs Murdoch an estimated $8 million a year in losses from an otherwise profitable empire that includes newspapers, magazines and airlines...