Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Director Bridges for his sure handling of the action and in part to a script that makes us really care for Fonda and Lemmon. It seems almost superfluous to praise Fonda anew, but she is truly at the peak of her talent these days. Nobody has done a better characterization of the vacuity of the TV news "personality" −the little moments of makeup-mirror vanity snatched against deadline pressure, the falseness of on-camera performances that must never really look like performances, the psycho logical confusions of pretending to be a real reporter when you know...
Burger King, with 2,500 outlets the second largest chain, plans to open about 350 new ones this year. Though Pillsbury does not report separate sales and profit figures for Burger King, analysts believe that the chain is expected to manage better than its rivals. A major reason: the chain was fastest in diversifying its menu. Besides hamburgers, it offered chicken, fish and ham-and-cheese sandwiches...
Congress at least seems to be in the mood to try. Pressure is growing for an overdue revision of national security laws. Whether Congress can better balance the inherent conflict between national security and the rights of fair trial and free press remains, however, to be seen...
...better places do not curdle the diner's juices with Tin Pan Aloha plunk-plunk music. Some of the most memorable songs are English or American ballads rendered in Hawaiian to a Hawaiian beat; The Battle Hymn of the Republic sounds terrific that way. Many other chants have their island-English versions, to wit: The Twelve Days of Christmas, in which "my tutu [grannie] give to me one mynah bird in one papaya tree, two coconut, three dried squid, four flower lei, five fat pig, six hula lesson, seven shrimp as wimming, eight ukulele, nine pound...
...three colleges. Emporia State and Arkansas, but not Johnson County, corrected his run-on sentence ("Enrollments will continue to decline, no change in the pattern is in sight") and his incorrect use of "less" for "fewer" ("Less students are enrolled this year than last"). The response was no better when he wanted to check out the more subtle misuse of "whom" in a subordinate clause ("They wanted to hire whomever was the best candidate"). A Johnson County instructor correctly insisted that Miller switch to "whoever," but at Emporia, an unidentified voice, presumably a graduate student, told Miller the sentence...