Word: bickering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bouncing off the walls of the brain. Each scene is Charlie's remembrance of incidents of his youth--his last good book, his first good job, his parents' first and last fight, his first sex. Charlie Now (age 45) and Young Charlie (age 17) waltz together on stage. They bicker. The elder blames the younger for childhood failures and gets taunted in return for his failure in maturity...
SALT II is seriously threatened by the furor over Soviet combat troops in Cuba. While senators, with next year's elections in mind, bicker over the 2-3000 Soviet combat troops in Cuba, SALT II recedes into the background of American foreign policy until President Carter takes what Congress considers corrective action...
Tribe holds that since the Constitution does not explicitly state who controls a convention's agenda, the convention and Congress would probably bicker. Bruce Ackerman, professor of law at Yale, takes an even stronger position in this week's New Republic, maintaining that Article V conventions must be open to any amendment and cannot be limited to a specific agenda. Ackerman says that no one has the power to limit a convention's agenda, and no one ought to; he apparently believes the drafters of the Constitution intended the convention clause for the next time Americans wanted to rewrite their...
...individual ingredients for a bring-down-the-house, Tony-award-winning performance, but they never coalesce into a complex, recognizably human character. Yellen hasn't given him any shading; the role is all in the snappy dialogue with nothing in between the lines. Lewis and Thompson (Lois Nettleton) bicker through an interminable "seduction" scene in her Berlin apartment, fly off to Moscow where he gets drunk and insults the Commies, return to Berlin where he gets drunk and insults her, get married and move to Vermont where she misses her journalism and he can't write, fly back to Europe...
...RATHER SKIMPY BOOK by George Furth focuses on the travails of Bobby, a single man in his mid-30s surrounded by "those good, crazy people, my married friends." He drifts from one of the five supporting couples to another, watching them bicker and age together, wondering when and if he, too, will succumb to the marital trap...