Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concerned with food or anything, Charlie's Kitchen is an o.k. bar," he says. "Sometimes you just want a place where the drinks are cheap and you don't stick to the seats. But if you're looking for atmosphere or brass plating, you'll have a harder time in the Square...
...CORPORATION likes to keep its image up to date, and apparently cleft chins are in this year, so the big brass decided to revamp the product. Most of the work on "Michael Jackson" was actually done on computers, of course, but in order to keep the public convinced that there really is such a person as "Michael" they sent me door-to-door to pencil in the new cleft on fans' posters while they were away...
Then the Pope sped on to New Orleans, where he was greeted on arrival with -- surprise! -- a chorus of When the Saints Go Marching In by the Olympia Brass and Funeral Band. Despite that lively welcome, the crowds that viewed the Pontiff were smaller than expected. After paying tribute at St. Louis Cathedral to local priests and sisters for their "heroic dedication," he traveled to the famed Superdome. There, at a meeting with black Catholics, Bishop Joseph Howze of Biloxi, Miss., told John Paul that "racism is a major hindrance to full development of black leadership within the church." John...
...Portsmouth, Va., shipyard. When Dravo discovered its design would not work as promised, it had to redesign the plant. By August of last year, the company faced increased costs of almost $25 million. Dravo's Washington Lobbyist Martin Hamberger did not waste time trying to persuade unsympathetic Navy brass to renegotiate. Instead he went to Specter, asking for a bailout. The Senator received $9,500 from Dravo's political-action committee for his 1986 re-election campaign. Last September Hamberger gave Specter a draft of what he wanted -- an amendment to the defense appropriations bill that directed the Navy...
...pique, then wisely filed away unmailed. His diaries, though intermittent, are no less revealing. In June 1945, as General Douglas MacArthur was closing in on the islands near Japan, Truman's entries foreshadow the bitter personal battles that lay ahead. He describes the general as "Mr. Prima Donna, Brass Hat Five Star MacArthur" in one entry and adds, "He's worse than the Cabots and the Lodges -- they at least talked to one another before they told God what...