Word: frees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aware how isolated you have made Iran? Even Islamic nations have condemned the hostage taking. You have pushed the U.S. out of Iran, but who will free you from pressures by the Soviet Union...
...whether both sides want it to hold. We would be grossly overoptimistic if we thought there were not going to be cease-fire incidents and incidents of electoral intimidation. But I still think it is possible to get a successful cease-fire and an election that is fair and free. I also think that neither side is absolutely certain it can win the war. Consequently, both sides have come to the conclusion that a negotiated settlement...
...There might be a short period in which something might happen. But I have reasons for saying that the frontline states would not support the continuation of a war-based in their countries and supplied from their countries-after an election that is generally felt to have been free and fair. Nor, I am confident, would the South Africans. I feel much more optimistic about [the postelection period] than about the immediate ceasefire...
Worse still is Brest's maltreatment of his cast. Though Burns and Carney are virtually fail-safe comics, the film's clunky timing robs them of their laughs. The crabby Strasberg is given free rein to show off his entire catalogue of italicized acting gestures. It says something about this movie that one feels nothing even when two of the three supposedly lovable heroes die. When a film is as moribund as Going in Style, death is not a tragedy but merely an anticlimax...
...Cooder, Paradise and Lunch (Reprise/Warner Bros., 1974). The guitarist-singer's loveliest diversion of various musical undercurrents (from gospel to Burt Bacharach to R. and B.) into a free-flowing mainstream...