Word: blankings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scene endings. The play as a whole is a light treatment of the grotesque side of human affairs. The cast successfully conveys the repressed insanity that lies beneath social forms. But at the end of about half the scenes, the grotesque is fired at the audience point blank: so-and-so dies, so-and-so is trapped forever. Admittedly, the alternative of "inheriting five million rubies" is ridiculous; still, one does attend a Neil Simon comedy to get such depressing tidbits of reality. Perhaps there is some social message here about the nature of life. Perhaps midterms are the ultimate...
...that some time this month Dole and Senate committee chairmen will march to the White House with a list of reductions going beyond those Reagan proposes; for example, it might include a freeze on cost of living increases in Social Security pensions. But there will be a conspicuous blank for military expenditures, and a warning that all the other cuts are contingent on Reagan's filling in that blank with a figure well below what Weinberger proposes...
Lomeiko specifically knocked down speculation that Chernenko might resign at a Central Committee meeting, possibly next month. When Loory asked whether Chernenko was seriously ill, Lomeiko denied it point-blank. Said he: "All Politburo members are entitled to a monthlong winter vacation, and the General Secretary is taking his." Where? Somewhere outside Moscow...
...approval from headquarters. One unit is developing automatic teller machines for banks; another is building industrial robots. IBM's best-known IBU produced the company's Personal Computer. A dozen executives led by Philip D. Estridge, 47, set up headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla., in 1980 with a blank check and a mandate to get IBM into the personal-computer business as soon as possible. The group proceeded to break some of the most sacrosanct IBM traditions. Instead of just using IBM's legendary sales organization, it decided to sell through computer retailers as well. To keep costs in line...
...Taped to the wall above Carol's desk was a marching line of signed blank checks collected the last time Ray made the rounds. The customers trust the Arnolds, with good reason. The Arnolds are their contact, their cablehead to civilization. So intimate is this bush network, Carol can calculate the state of marital relations in the mountains by the quantity of condom orders, though she chooses to push this intelligence out of mind...