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...quiet the controversy, the Hatfields turned over their records to the Senate Ethics Committee. Former associates of Tsakos also filed sworn statements to the committee, charging that the financier had tried to buy Hatfield's support for the pipeline. The chronology of events is awkward for the Hatfields: the final check for $10,000 was delivered only days after the Senator wrote a letter to Tsakos supporting the project...
...seats in the National Assembly, the Socialists do not need the Communists in order to stay in power. In one stroke, Mitterrand managed to boost his party's fortunes well before the legislative elections that must take place by June 1986, and to end an awkward situation in which the Communists were incessantly criticizing the very government of which they were a part. He decided to replace the genial but politically discredited Mauroy, 56, with a new leader who would be less tainted by the past and, as it happened, unacceptable to the Communists...
...emerge as a witty and complex person, we discover her only as she discovers herself. Unfortunately, none of the other characters is nearly as well-conceived, with, the exception of Daria's new lover, Tom. However, most of the male characters. Ross in particular, are saddled with flat, awkward, cliched lines. Ross in constantly telling Daria that he needs his own space, needs to discover who he is, and that she is stifling...
There are some awkward moments in Spring Awakening, some innovations which simply don't work, but for the most part the play is jarring and shocking in an adventurous, appealing way. The vitality and creativity of the Harvard Summer. The vitality group are well represented in this, the first play of the season Spring Awakening is a daring theatric production and a strikingly human drama...
...column is only about 450 words, and the problem is simply to find the right ones. This takes three or four drafts usually, the first stiff and awkward, "like some English-class essay," and the last chatty and, in a carefully chiseled way, spontaneous. Advice to imitators: to avoid marooning yourself without provisions in a trackless last paragraph, think ahead of time of your cheery ending, the gag that leaves the reader newly hopeful that joining the French Foreign Legion may not be the only answer. Bombeck is proud of never missing a deadline, and she makes a point...