Word: muscular
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comes at a time when competitive challenges from abroad are growing rapidly and more and more foreign-owned plants are being based in the U.S. In the 1990s such competitors as Japan and West Germany will be joined by strong new rivals from much of Asia, from a more muscular European Community and from such Latin American countries as Mexico and Brazil...
...Buckaroo Banzai and taught her sweet niece how to dance in Desert Bloom. Just now she is bookending her role in Sea with a turn as the triple-crossing ultrabitch in Walter Hill's Johnny Handsome. Tough? This babe can blast a robbery victim without blinking. And when her muscular creep crony pulls a gun on her, she stares back utterly unimpressed, as if to say, "Go on and shoot. My hide's so hard, the bullets'll bounce...
...group of muscular men were lifting women in short skirts high over their heads and cheering for the Crimson. That's right--cheerleaders...
...Angeles six months ago, he weighed only 5 lbs. "He looked like a child assigned a set of skin three times too big," recalls Sheila Anderson, director of the infant's shelter at C.I.I. Crack babies frequently have trouble keeping down their food. Given to spasms, trembling and muscular rigidity, they resist cuddling by arching their backs, an early sign of what some studies suggest may be lasting neurological and emotional disorders. In pediatric intensive-care units around the country, they fill the night air with their inconsolable "cat cries," a distinctive high-pitched whine that conveys who knows what...
...further irony was that regionalism, supposed to be the expression of American democracy, was in its pictorial essence the kissing cousin of official Soviet art in the '30s. If socialist realism meant sanitized images , of collective rural production, new tractors, bonny children and muscular workers, so did the capitalist realism proposed by Benton and Wood. Both were arts of idealization and propaganda. In aesthetic terms, little that Benton painted for the next 40 years would have seemed altogether out of place on the ceilings of the Moscow subway. Apart from this, the whole matter of Benton's racism is still...