Word: arms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Japanese competition and the slowdown in capital spending. Last year company officials decided that they had to cut capacity and modernize their aging factories. After winning $60 million in grants and tax abatements from the Irish government to open a plant in County Dublin, they decided to try some arm-twisting Stateside. Shunning pretense, Hyster applied for grants from five states where it already operates plants. The company warned that unless the states could come up with enough money, it might close some facilities...
...joined and separated by the slash, are flip sides of the same coin. The two actors embody this ambiguity. They slip back and forth between unsynchronized attempts to provoke each other and cooing reconciliation, between absorption in their parts and ironic detachment. In a scene/verse called Acting, they walk arm in arm, dressed in curtains, with mock solemnity, down an imaginary aisle. "Now we are acting the partners in love," says...
...absurd in Acting to the tender sincerity of Watching the SLEEPING Lover. As MAN sleeps, WOMAN contemplates him, musing. "You look like my child." The familiar form of the words--a monologue addressed to a silent lover--assists the poetry in the lines: "I embrace you in sleep; my arm moves with your breathing...
...overheated offices are hardly the most serious problem Kraus has had to face as he attempts to operate within the loosely structured guidelines of Massachusetts politics. Coming from the decentralized administration of Harvard. Klaus said he had been warned that the Senate was a highly centralized organization, where arm twisting leadership would mandate voting patterns. However, he didn't find the legislative power-brokers he expected, he discovered instead "a building which runs entirely on rumor. It's the only place I've been where you can get rumor first-hand from the principal of the rumor...
...Life Is Good, Newman slings an arm over the shoulder of his "very good friend . . . Mr. Bruce Springsteen." In Take Me Back, a lively rave-up propelled by a roadhouse-style Farfisa organ, he chronicles how a life of early promise guttered and ended "by this dirty old airport/ In this greasy little shack." Randy Newman may live far from that kind of address-in Santa Monica, Calif., in fact, with a wife and three sons-but his imagination still dwells in the long shadows. Says his brother Alan: "Randy looks at the world from the underside...