Word: brief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both funny and on-target; his portrayal of Bingham, the elderly businessman with a penchant for health foods and naked women comes across particularly well. Maywald turns in the evening's most impressive performance, handling a wider range of roles than anyone else in the play. In her brief part as an efficient, sexless stenographer, clicking away at her typewriter while barking orders over her shoulder at the other stenographers, Maywald's characterization is sharp and perfectly loathsome. Playing a remarkably different role, she precisely captures Eleanor Stoddard, the attractive sophistocate who keeps Moorehouse hanging on a string...
Sadat concludes his autobiography with a brief account of his "sacred mission " to Jerusalem last November and his reflections on the U.S. role in bringing peace to the Middle East...
...held Lew Alcindor to 16 points in the only game the New Yorker's high school team lost: "The one outstanding quality Morgan has is his honesty. When you are streetwise like I was, you learn to read that." Sid Catlett, a Notre Dame graduate who had a brief NBA career, credits Wootten with turning his life around. Catlett had been fatherless since the age of three. When he went to De Matha, Catlett, now an electronics executive, turned to Wootten for guidance. Says he: "In my neighborhood, I could have gotten into all kinds of trouble. Morgan could...
...best thing S. 1437 has in its favor is public ignorance, and a relative lack of awareness by the press. The Los Angeles Times is to date the only major newspaper to oppose the bill in an editorial. As The National Committee Against Repressive Legislation said in its brief against the bill, "S. 1437 retains a large number of provisions which individually and in totality are gravely detrimental to the American system of individual rights. We must therefore oppose...
...sure the improvement would continue. The bleakest aspect of the fall is that no measures designed to strengthen the dollar seem to work any more. The U.S. at the start of the year began buying unwanted dollars to prop up their price; that intervention, which Europeans insisted was too brief, accomplished nothing. The Swiss in the past two weeks have taken a series of drastic steps to stop the rise of the Swiss franc against the dollar; among other things, they lowered interest rates to as little as 1%, imposed a 40% "negative interest" charge on certain foreign deposits...