Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...once offering Rooney as both high-brow humorist and purveyor of driveling banalities. Like his television pieces, many of Rooney's columns can't be taken more than a few minutes at a time. There's a limit to how many little mysteries of daily life one can absorb in a sitting or two. Essays entitled "Glue," "Hangers," and "Pennies" lose some of their off beat charm when they follow the likes of "Bathtubs." "The Refrigerator," and "Donuts...
...issue a test of his manhood," says a top White House aide. Whereas the former four-star general was flamboyant, emo tional and highly charged, Shultz, a com bat captain in the Marines who became an academic, is calm, collegial and reflective. His stolid demeanor seems more suited to absorb the bureaucratic shocks than Haig's thin skin. Says a senior State Department official: "Haig's style had be gun to be an issue in itself. Six weeks of Shultz have turned down the volume...
...market showed an amazing capacity to absorb bad news. Before trading opened on Thursday, Manville Corp., the largest U.S. asbestos producer, unexpectedly announced that it would reorganize under the protection of the federal bankruptcy laws. Manville's business operations are still sound, but the company has been overwhelmed by lawsuits from thousands of people claiming to have suffered serious health problems because of exposure to asbestos. Even though Manville stock was one of 30 that make up the Dow Jones industrial average, the market shrugged off the firm's troubles, and the Dow gained 11 points in the first hour...
...affect political events. Academicians, politicians, and print journalists were invited to question and challenge the TV bigwigs, but discussion revealed few new insights. Almost to a man--and woman--the network anchors, producers and executives defensively closed ranks, apparently too sensitive about their side of the news business to absorb the constructive criticism they supposedly sought when they proposed the meeting in the first place...
Indeed, Hollywood may be bent on disclosing more than anybody could possibly absorb about the stars-or, for that matter, care to know. Gary Grant, Bette Davis, Laurence Olivier, Richard Burton and (in separate covers) Elizabeth Taylor are merely the foremost subjects of the latest crop of biographies, autobiographies and memoirs. Dozens of these volumes have been gushing off the presses, and sometimes the trend seems to be toward not just revelation but multiple exposure: Joan Crawford and Errol Flynn have been dealt with in a couple of books each, and three biographies of Gary Cooper issued forth almost simultaneously...