Word: spoken
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Kuwait ever comes to exist, the complaints about a lack of democracy may be moot. The Emir has promised to restore the parliament and increase political freedoms in general. No one claims to have spoken to a Kuwaiti who doubts that pledge. "After liberation," says Professor Ibrahim, the Egyptian sociologist, "I foresee Kuwait as an ever more democratic state -- and for that alone it is worth fighting for. But more, you would be fighting for all the principles that the people in the Arab world aspire...
...said he had not spoken to any of the eight councilors since Wednesday's hearing and did not intend to unless he encountered them in the Statehouse...
...Harvard would be crazy to appoint this man president," says Jeffrey Hart, professor of English and a member of the board of directors of The Review. "He is personally unstable. He is a liar...The few faculty members I've spoken to think it's mind-boggling that Harvard is considering...
...same time, Major, who never attended a university, benefited from his image as a man of the people who had overcome his humble origins by dint of hard work and talent. Soft-spoken and calm, Major offered Tories a perfect compromise -- a continuation of Thatcher's basic policies without the drawbacks of her grating style...
Toward the end of the movie's two hours and 17 minutes, there is very little dialogue at all; half an hour passes with hardly a word spoken except in Tamashek, the language of the Tuareg nomads, with whom Kit hitches a fateful ride. But there are many profound images of the desert in all its pitiless grandeur, courtesy of Bertolucci and his peerless cinematographer, Vittorio Storaro. The wind sculpts mountains and minarets out of the shifting sand. On a rocky spot where Port and Kit have just made desperate love, the setting sun alights for a moment...