Word: write
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Another possibility is that Beijing wants to avoid the embarrassment that would result if some of the dissidents were nominated as write-in candidates in the local People's Congress elections now under way. Yet another theory contends that recent diplomatic overtures from the West and the international preoccupation with the gulf crisis have convinced the Chinese that the trials will provoke only a muted outcry from abroad...
...used 400 gal. of paint, 800 lbs. of nails, 7,000 ft. of lumber, 5,000 squares of shingles and 200 bags of cement, all paid for by local donations with an enviable provision: if they fell short, Sonoco Products Co., a plastics-packaging giant acting as sponsor, would write a check for the difference...
...feels it went wrong long before Tom Stoppard sat down to write his doggedly faithful adaptation of John le Carre's best seller, long before director Fred Schepisi shouted "Action!" (or, possibly, in this case, "Stasis!"), perhaps even before the novelist set to work on his book. Le Carre seems to have gone off at about the moment the literary world made him its designated serious entertainer and he started believing his enthralled reviews. All his recent books contain far more writing than they require to explore their conventional characters and ideas. "Oh, get on with it," one snorts, setting...
...artistry. I still have a vivid memory, for example, of the way she slowly read the passage from Swift in which Gulliver was tied down by the Lilliputians. Each word became part of a picture in the mind. I don't know how long it took Swift to write this particular description, but it helped open young minds to the kind of imagery that belongs to creative expression. We had the same sense of literary splendor when our teacher read -- so carefully and lovingly -- from Thomas Hardy or the Brontes, or when she asked one of us to read Flaubert...
...smoke screen had worked," they write, "The West was focused on Israel. The Arabs were focused on oil production quotas and pricing. And Iraq was focused on Kuwait...