Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...notably farm issues. Bureau Chief James Risser won Pulitzer Prizes in 1976 (writing about grain-export corruption) and in 1979 (for stories about soil conservation). The Iowa staff has exposed substandard conditions in old-age homes, written extensively about railroad safety problems and tangled with insurance companies. Politics gets blanket coverage year round. "We're loaded with political junkies," says Editor and President Michael G. Gartner. "We cover the hell out of the state. We smother...
Eight years later, the time chimes yesterday and Paul and Susan have loved and divorced. After one last torrid afternoon, Paul wraps himself in a blanket and flops onto a couch to look at slides--his life with Susan etched eternally in ektachrome...
...Since the action of singling out Iranian students, comprising only 20 percent of the foreign student population in the U.S., for selective harassment by Immigration constitutes what is known as suspect classification" (the casting of blanket suspicion of wrongdoing on a group classified only by race, religion, or national origin...
...toward death. "When a family member dies, they take little notice," said a nurse. "They see death every day. They're very tough." One young man made no move to inform camp authorities when his wife died of cerebral malaria. As her body lay beside him beneath a blanket, he stared tearlessly into space. A Khmer Rouge soldier explained that the Angka never allowed them to cry. "We were not even allowed to say we would miss the people who died...
...ominous noise in the kitchen turns out to be the ice maker; and yes, the ghastly face visible when a door is jerked open belongs to a cop, not the murderer. The big scream scene, in which Kane turns for help to a blanket-covered figure of her sleeping husband, is some of the funniest footage since the Marx brothers broke up, and maybe it should have been planned that...