Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other magazine and book publishers reject the writers' proposals as unjustified because freelancers are self-employed. Indeed, the new group's Manhattan-based consulting attorney, Lewis Steel, concedes, "The National Labor Relations Board may not recognize the union. But it still has the right to bargain...
LIFE IS A CABARET, death a blast, and apocalypse in Burgess' twenty-sixth novel or "entertainment," as he labels it. Not only is this "very deep" book a "bargain," it will "slip down as easily as a dozen oysters well-sharpened with lemon juice and tobacco," as the author declares in the jacket blurb. The book is really three stories in one. All concern the end of human history adapted for the modern TV viewer. At times The End of the World News is all that its author promises: at times it is merely quirky. But whatever its flaws, this...
...orchestra repertory for it to be a serious contender. The Dallas Symphony has one of the finest string sections in the country, but is interpretatively hampered by its prosaic conductor, Eduardo Mata. Washington's National Symphony, another orchestra with the capacity to rise, may yet regret its Faustian bargain with Conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, the ebullient master cellist who gives it great media attention and a passionate commitment to Russian music but otherwise generally undistinguished musical leadership. Still more able orchestras can be found in Cincinnati, Houston, Rochester, Baltimore, Detroit and Atlanta...
...agenda of the INF negotiations. The British and French forces in particular should be left aside entirely. Mostly submarine-based, less accurate and less destructive, they have as their prime purpose to defend Britain and France alone, not the Western alliance as a whole. The U.S. cannot bargain with the independent deterrents of its sovereign allies in a bilateral Soviet-American negotiation. The Soviets, of course, know that. The real reason that they are pressing the issue is that they hope to play on British and French fears
...defending the family honor with it by seven. The Watsons were vacationing in Colorado, and father and son were about to tee off when the starter objected that the child was too little. Pointing to a ditch in the distance, Ray Watson struck a bargain. If Tommy was able to carry the hazard, could he play? It was agreed. Seven is young to feel that kind of pressure, but Tommy played that...