Word: arounder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...answers to that increasingly confusing question in the Critics' Voices section at the front of the magazine. A forum for entertainment tips and mini-reviews of everything from books to brandy, the section provides a one-page guide to what is worth -- or not worth -- hearing, seeing and doing around the U.S. from week to week. Our critics raved about the program Night Music as "the best damn music show on television." But they warned watchers to skip the movie Wired in one terse comment: "The saddest thing about John Belushi's death might be this requiem...
...checked my handgun at the gate," Richard Nixon quipped within earshot of a dozen armed Chinese police and soldiers standing guard around the U.S. embassy in Beijing. His sarcasm drew whoops of laughter from foreign service officers, who had lodged three complaints in as many days against "harassment" by the Chinese troops stationed outside the compound. With Sino-American relations at their lowest in years, the former President was back in Beijing last week on a "private" visit, attempting to salvage what he could of the relationship he had launched with such drama in 1972. If any outsider...
...decision to grant Fang and his wife refuge has become the primary source of tension between the two countries. Just before Halloween the Chinese mounted a show of force around the embassy, evidently fearing that masked party guests were going to smuggle Fang out in a coffin. Diplomats had joked openly for months about pulling such a stunt. The Chinese evidently took them at their word -- monitored, no doubt, over tapped phone lines...
...school, everyone asked me why I didn't do sports. I wouldn't change for anyone, but I went to two at-home games. It was great to be with the gang, but it didn't really change anything. The kids hit me and pushed me around, and finally I stopped going. My parents support my being here because they support my being in school. They're handling my being gay, so I guess they're handling my being here." So far, eight students have graduated from Harvey Milk; a handful of others have returned to mainstream schools...
...lead in moderately priced copiers. Says Kearns: "At Xerox we define quality as meeting customer requirements. It's an axiom as old as business itself. Yet much of American business lost sight of that. Xerox was one of these companies. But by focusing on quality, we have turned that around...