Word: ben
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film's heroes are, after all, a half- century closer to death than its audience is. Art (Don Ameche), Ben (Wilford Brimley) and Joe (Hume Cronyn) are not mopes or sticks or hypochondriacs, but they know that their time has nearly elapsed, that their body clocks are running down, that pleasures of the flesh are now memories or might-have-beens. So their transformation into rakehells is both joyous and poignant. It is delicious to watch Ameche, 77, Cronyn, 73, and Brimley, 50 (but he can pass for old), kicking up dust as the stars of a geezer's Porky...
...crime in the past and don't give the disposition of the case, that's not complete reporting." Other editors viewed the episode as a tempest in an inkpot. "This doesn't seem to be one of the greatest issues of our time," said Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee, whose paper ran the series with a separate story explaining Dellacroce's acquittal (and his recent indictment on racketeering charges). Many papers also printed Sinatra's response criticizing Trudeau for "his attempts at humor without regard to fairness or decency...
...Washington Post Executive Editor BEN BRADLEE at Scripps College in Claremont, Calif.: "In its lay -- or nongovernmental -- form, press bashing is most apt to show up in the form of libel suits. The Philadelphia Inquirer has no less than 21 libel suits filed against it today. We have had a big one going with the former president of Mobil Oil. Four judges have considered it; two have ruled for him and two for us, but unfortunately for us, the last two were his. It is on appeal now, and our legal bills alone have already topped...
...Cohen does not belief that science should be regarded only in its own terms. Science is inevitably bound up in other areas of intellectual history. Cohen embellishes his discussion of scientists from Copernicus to Einstein with reference to Thuycidides, Plato, Tacitus, Montaigne, English political history, Renaissance history, Jonathan Swift, Ben Jonson's masques, Rousseau, Voltaire, Samuel Johnson and even the rebel yell of confederate soldiers in the American Civil...
...been elaborately orchestrated. Negotiations had gone on for 16 months between Israel and a small faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Through the protracted bargaining, former Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky had served as an intermediary. Finally, at dawn last Monday, a dozen buses carrying 394 Arab prisoners drove to Ben-Gurion International Airport, outside Tel Aviv, where the men boarded three Israeli air force jet transports for Geneva. At approximately the same hour, the three Israeli prisoners took off from Damascus, the capital of Syria. On arrival in Geneva, the Arab prisoners remained aboard the Israeli planes, parked...