Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Correspondent Sandra Burton, who wrote the box on Aquino's decision to run for the Philippine presidency, the choice was the culmination of a reporting assignment that began in 1983, when Burton was present at the assassination of Ninoy Aquino, Corazon's husband. Since that dramatic moment, no Western journalist has been more privy to Corazon Aquino's rise to power than Burton...
...Irene (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $12.95), the daughter of a fevered dressmaker attempts to deliver a ball gown to a faraway duchess. Young Irene is faced with cold, snowdrifts and night. Lesser individuals might need rescuers, but this child has ingenuity to go with her spunk. She turns the dress box into a toboggan and slides her way to the ball. Young ladies have come a long way since Hans Christian Andersen's little match girl froze her toes in the snow...
...Clark, 44, came of age professionally during the decline of blank-box modernism. It is a nice irony that the small hotel he and his partner, Charles Menefee, 32, designed for a river-bluff site outside Charleston, S.C., is such an unapologetically modernist work. The Middleton Inn, elegant and Miesian in the best senses, is complicated but not overwrought, decorous but not formulaic...
...DEADEST DUCK George Lucas' $40 million Howard the Duck as it sank into box-office oblivion, proving that even the empire can strike...
Perhaps, but the hospitalization ought at least to have prompted some questions. Like every other potential appointee to the NSC staff, North had to fill out a form asking if he had ever been hospitalized because of emotional problems. Even if he checked the No box, a thorough background investigation might have turned up the hospitalization anyway. Yet a Government source says none of the three agencies empowered to screen NSC nominees -- the FBI, the Secret Service and the office of the White House counsel -- learned about it. NSC screenings were frequently slipshod, says the source. "There were security violations...