Word: greater
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...After Friuli, the Americans did some wonderful things," he says. "They built schools, hospitals. This time the need is much greater. In this present phase of sheltering the homeless, we need 7,000 trailers, or funds to buy them...
...Christie pregnant. But then came Star Wars, in which the cutely diminutive Artoo Deetoo and See Threepio help to rescue the imprisoned Princess Leia. Thus Hollywood found ways to reduce Frankenstein's heirs to figures of camp, reproducible in plastic. Inside their wired metal brains, the robots nourish greater ambitions than that...
...birthday suits and some anachronistic Rod Stewart haircuts. Frontal nudity in the National Theater is like a flasher in a cathedral. Worse follows: the slaughter of two of the Celts by a squad of Roman invaders and the sodomizing of a third. This sight encouraged the leader of the Greater London Council, Sir Horace Cutler, to send down telegraphic thunderbolts about the renewal of the National's subsidy. Censor-without-Portfolio Mary Whitehouse read about-but did not see-The Romans, and immediately swore out a complaint. Scotland Yard's Obscene Publications Squad was sent to investigate...
...There was an assumption in Washington that the U.S. seemed to have far greater power and manipulative control over the situation in Iran than we actually had," Sullivan said Wednesday. Because of the varying statements coming from Brzezinski on the one hand and State Department officials on the other, the U.S. "spoke with not only an ambivalent voice, but an actively internecine one" on Iran...
Also, he said, the U.S. should "avoid entanglements with personnified governments." Because of the emphasis on personal ties to the shah, the U.S. "lost sight of the greater interests--not only national interests and those of our friends and allies, but those of the Iranian people...