Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feel bad about asking the actors to help sew costumes," says Stage Manager Susan Rosen. Adding, "If you don't do it, it's not going to get done...
...Chevy Malibu A policeman sets off after him on a motorcycle, pulls him to the side of the road, and inquires what is in the trunk, which seems to contain something hot--literally. I wouldn't look in there, Parnell intimates, thereby piquing the cop's curiosity Bad move, buster. As Parnell watches out of the rear-view mirror, the cop opens the trunk, which emanates weird x-ray emissions and zaps the poor guy to smithereens. J. Frank drives off into the California sunset...
...aims to wallow in its own neurotic. Road Warrior or Decline--Repo Man, the first film by Mike Nesmith (yes, the guy from the Monkees), can't seem to decide which it wants to be, and so it is a mishmash of the two, which is not necessarily a bad thing, though it doesn't work here. Slap-dash road violence in the post-nuclear age (or pre-, as the case may be) and the pathetic tribulations of alienated punks--the two mix seamlessly in this offbeat satire of suburban L.A. life...
...Bad management has shot down more airplanes, sunk more ships and immobilized more soldiers than all our enemies in history put together," the witness told the crowded Senate hearing room last week. Pentagon Whistle Blower A. Ernest Fitzgerald, a management systems deputy for the Air Force, had been called to testify before Iowa Senator Charles Grassley's Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure. Fitzgerald, fired in 1970 after he disclosed huge cost overruns on the Lockheed C-5A military transport, was restored to his original Pentagon job in 1982 under court order. He complained to the Senate panel that...
...acres and is home for 330 adults and 600 children. Negba boasts not just pear orchards, 300 dairy cows and a computer-run irrigation system, but factories that make clothes and plastic bags. Zvieli, an accountant for one of the factories, is asked how things are going. "Not bad," he responds, "but the high interest is eating up profits." Zvieli pauses, pondering the larger dimensions of a question that could be asked about Israel itself. "I prefer not to get into politics," he says cautiously. "But I am disappointed by what is happening to our state...