Word: action
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pini asked Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci to appoint a committee to evaluate such an inspection program. But the council voted to delay action until receiving a written proposal...
...report gave rise to optimism mainly because of its bold proposal to restructure affirmative action procedures within FAS's academic departments. Under the initial recommendation, each department would name a senior faculty member other than the chair as an affirmative action representative to oversee the recruitment process...
...When the action shifts to his minimalist pad, where he surprises his lover in bed with a boyfriend, he caroms between Noel Coward worldliness and Edward Albee combat, hinting at suicide, half attempting murder. In earlier versions of the play, the bloody pathos of opera found a parallel: the abandoned man stabbed his lover, then held him in a last embrace. That ending felt arch. This one feels anticlimactic, void of release. So does the end of an affair, an event McNally chronicles with specific detail and authentic, universal pain...
...would plan his film while starring in three roles with his Renaissance Theater Company. And he would shoot his Henry, for a pinchpenny $7.5 million, in seven weeks, less than a third of the time Olivier took. On the first day, the novice director didn't know to shout "Action!" until someone poked him in the ribs. How could he make a decent film under so daunting a shadow...
...after Congress voted to cut off aid to the contras in 1985? Last week he did it again. Ortega announced the cancellation of a 19-month-old cease-fire with the rebels and thereby raised the possibility that the elections, scheduled for February, might be scuttled. With that one action he managed to put Nicaragua back on the U.S. agenda, outrage his Central American neighbors and renew the prospect of war in his worn-out nation...