Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...added to this list is Federico Fellini's "And the Ship Sails On", a dreamy, allegorical film set in the tension-filled days of August 1914, when the European continent girded for its first encounter with modern warfare. The film, Fellini's fifteenth, is an adult fairy tale gone bad. The story takes place aboard a luxury liner somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea with a group of passengers representing Europe's elite. This array of artists and nobles have gathered for the scattering of the ashes of a renowned opera star named Edmea Tetua whom they all knew at some...
...midnight approached on January 17 this year, thousands of Massachusetts citizens jammed 12 temporary tax centers from Boston to Pittsfield to settle accounts with their consciences and with a vigorous new state revenue department bent on curing what Revenue Commissioner Ira A. Jackson '70 describes as "bad tax habits" in the commonwealth...
...slide through the forest, their trail is streaked with patches of dire brown. A small battalion of soldiers is scattered in the woods prospecting for snow by the clump, hauling it out in what appear to be orange parachutes, dumping it down orange funnels, stomping it into the bad spots. They are sweating, if no one else is. "I can assure you, there is plenty of snow for the competition," says Juan Antonio Samaranch, the Spanish president of the International Olympic Committee. "We expect this to be not one of the best, but the actual best...
...United States message of condolence preceded Vice President Bush's delegation to the funeral to arrive in Moscow Tuesday. The statement contained, strangely enough, the Administration's throw-away paragraph usually reserved to excuse bad relations with the Russians: "...the United States has sought and will continue to seek a constructive and realistic dialogue and the reduction of arms." This is a truly odd sentence in a letter of condolence for a leader with whom one has not been able to negotiate at all, unless of course it was meant ironically. It's good to know we will continue...
...instead, the President seems bent on allowing this act of fate to drag relations with the Soviets not forward, but back to the starting gate. And fate promises to relieve the Administration of the necessity of proving conciliatory in the election year to come, to muffle the bad press resulting from having presided over the worst level of Soviet-American relations in recent history Circumstance has offered the Administration a convenient way out which they seem inclined to follow, even at the risk of losing a rare chance to open a better route...