Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has consistently endorsed Carter's tough stance on Afghanistan. Shortly after meeting with Vance, British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington called on his fellow Europeans to unite in supporting the U.S. Said he: "There is no country in the [European] Community which doesn't know that the alliance with America is the bedrock of Europe's security. When the chips are down, we are all firmly on the side of the only superpower we have...
...floor. Or, submitting to a telephone interview, after the President has quoted him in a speech, he catches sight of a TV exercise class and begins aping the movements of the instructor?movements he repeats later when MacLaine tries to seduce him and he does not know what to do. His literalism simply explodes the metaphorical cliches by which adults live and provides the energy by which a sometimes listless, pompous movie gains vitality...
...have contributed, some friends have speculated, to their child's confusion and detachment. Surely, Bill's shyness and Peg's aggressiveness helped to create the split in Sellers. The private man is anonymously dressed ("If you see me when I'm not making a film, you would never know I was in the business"), hiding behind a variety of tinted glasses. The professional man, the possessed performer, throws himself into roles that are often multiple. He has played more than one part in seven films, including The Mouse That Roared, Strangelove and his next, The Fiendish Plot...
...around; perhaps if he was the landlady's son, you'd be lucky. Then you'd hope that he'd remember you." Out of this he forged resiliency, durability and "the humor, I suppose." Certainly it tempered his ability to endure loneliness. "I've had marriages fail, and I know that working just for the sake of working doesn't help. What really does help is the fact that I don't mind being alone. I really don't mind. I'm quite happy to sit here and look out the window...
...constitutional amendment banning Muzak and fines for people who talk about needing their own space. He also thinks it would be nice if politicians, when pontificating on TV, were forced to wear party hats so that viewers could keep their remarks in perspective. The message is simple: Ye shall know a civilization by its common customs, and if these are mostly absurd, then it is likely that the society's larger principles have gone awry as well. The modern world's institutionalized lunacies are, of course, symbolized by the lavishly subsidized think tank and the mischief it creates...