Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...head of the construction company last week denied blame for the leakage, shifting it instead to Harvard. "Harvard's engineers were on the job all the way through," he said. "They must have been satisfied, otherwise they would not have paid...
FORD AND HIS CRONIES are not willing to give New York breathing space. The city is to blame for the crisis, they claim. The administration consistently refuses to recognize New York's desperate attempts to overhaul and reorganize its budget, because such a recognition might imply that the city deserves help. Ford told a meeting of midwestern small city mayors two weeks ago, "Your constituents wouldn't tolerate it if you ran your cities as badly as New York City has been run." As Ford portrays it, there is no way to help an overgrown government that has been wasting...
...testimony before a Senate subcommittee (see following story) that the number of threats against the President had tripled during the first 20 days of September, jumping from the 100 or 110 that might have been considered routine to a new total of 320. Simon put part of the blame on the publicity given to Squeaky Fromme and Sally Moore: "When these people are glamorized on the front pages of our national magazines, I think this does great harm...
...cast is fine. David Spielberg as Actor Parks poignantly tries to cling to a shard of dignity, and Allan Miller as Abe Burrows pulls more legs than the committee has. The real inquisitor is Bentley, who deals out a blame game that is dramatically deficient and devoid of charity...
...press watchers think the newsmagazines and their covers deserved such censure. "Politicians might do better to figure out why our society causes people to act this way than to blame the newsmagazines," says Esquire Media Columnist Nora Ephron. "Even if you could prove that Sara Moore was looking at TIME or Newsweek as she loaded her gun, you'd still have to support a free press." Says Washington Post Editor Ben Bradlee: "Journalists are in the business of describing what happens and we don't lie, which is more than a lot of politicians can say. The fearful...