Word: blakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sense, the current cover project started in 1978 when Associate Editor Patricia Blake, a Soviet specialist, wrote the first of her several versions of the Brezhnev obituary...
When Brezhnev's death was announced, the well-rehearsed plan for the special section went into operation. Senior Writer Roger Rosenblatt refined the introduction; Blake put final touches on the obituary and on an Andropov profile, then turned to the main news story; Staff Writer John Kohan, who once studied at the University of Leningrad, completed the story on the men Yuri Andropov must work with. In all, the 23-page finished product involved seven writers, 33 correspondents, eight reporter-researchers, much of TIME's layout and picture staff, and five editors. But despite all the precautions, nobody...
...Harris Blake, who rapped his opponent again and again for his liberal stances on abortion, school prayer, and forced busing...
...Press Enterprise newspaper company in Bloomsburg, Pa., offered $5 to anyone who could name the two men running for Pennsylvania's Eleventh Congressional District. It did not lose much money. Carrying a roll of $5 bills, Reporter Janice Blake buttonholed 120 people at three shopping centers in the district and found only six who knew the names of incumbent Republican James Nelligan and Democrat Frank Harrison. A sampling of answers...
...Order is always sacrificed to chaos. But My Favorite Year positively wallows in benignity. The screwball comedies of the 30s could get away with that, but sheer niceness just isn't a cinematic virtue any longer. A recent example of this shift came last year in Victor/Victoria, in which Blake Edwards momentarily lost his customary sharpness and floundered around in a bland, sentimental limbo. Likewise, My Favorite Year contains too many lovable characters, too many cute situations, and in the end it becomes oppressively fluffy. Even the movie's villains corrupt teamster boss and his henchmen turns out as threatening...