Word: albert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...excellent track record," said Kennedy School Professor of Public Policy Albert Carnesale, referring to Reagan's previous success in deflecting public criticism of his administration's policies...
...miraculously finds himself placed in the positions of the Blacks, Jews, Asians and others he hates. In the end, Morrow was to be redeemed by his experience, but due to the accident, the segment was left with a more ambiguous ending. Still, Landis' Twilight Zone prologue, with Aykroyd and Albert Brooks driving along a deserted road, is a wonderfully effective piece of American Werewolf-like comedy-horror. Likewise, his other pictures have often been flawed but given a sense of anarchistic earnestness that, like the many misfiring SNL sketches, earns an audience's indulgence. If only there were a point...
...place; yes, the hair is thin; yes, the belly is big. Winston Hart, 71, was there, a very tall, strong-faced man called "Hemlock," with powerful knotty arms, his pants held up by braces, who was a woods foreman for the Brown Paper Co. Another bull of the woods, Albert Gadwah, 79, showed up wearing a brand- new red shirt, size extra large. "I never had a bit of a problem with those boys," he said. Raymond White, 58, from Guildhall, Vt., seemed too young to have memories of Camp Stark. But he had come carrying a sack full...
After the war Wiesel settled in France, where he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, worked as a journalist and came under the influence of Albert Camus and Francois Mauriac. His first novel, Night (1958), was an indelible account of the Nazi atrocities as seen through the eyes of a teenage boy. The hell inside the death camps is described in austere, intense prose that became the author's emblem: "Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night . . . Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget...
...medical community, it set off a debate over further AIDS testing. If the drug seemed to slow the progress of the disease, some researchers asked, was it ethical to conduct tests in which half the patients got placebos and thus had no chance to benefit from the treatment? Albert Jonsen, a professor of ethics at the University of California, San Francisco, concedes that the placebo question is "an agonizing problem," but he insists that placebos are the only way to find out "whether there is an effect that is attributable to the drug and not to chance...