Word: caper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...caper may have been more humorous than tragic, but it does serve as an emblem of the University's willingness this year to scrap past promises or reconsider time-honored policies that reflected the best of Harvard. On two of this year's signal issues--the temporary decisions to end the University's absolute ban on investment in banks that loan to South Africa, and to cancel the Fogg Museum's proposed new wing. Harvard precipitously discarded earlier promises...
Bankers and brokers spent much of last week trying to nail down how Drysdale pulled off its caper. Though the nearly four-month-old company employed about 30 securities traders and operated with little more than $20 million in capital of its own, it had managed to put together a $6.5 billion portfolio of U.S. Government bonds, bills and notes. More than $4 billion of that was borrowed. Said a top Wall Street bond trader of the bewilderingly complex financial structure of the upstart firm's activities: "It was the most astonishingly leveraged operation that I have ever seen...
...denies any involvement in the Watergate cover-up or the break-in at Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office--the two crimes for which he served 18 months in federal prison. He pins the former caper completely on Dean, and hints quite strongly that Nixon commissioned the later. Far from admitting any wrongdoing. Ehrlichman claims that Nixon though of him as the "conscience" of the Administration. The problem with that story is simple: he enlists no new evidence in his cause and supplements, his charges with no compelling arguments. He merely stakes his word against Dean's, the prosecutors...
...previews on two continents, perpetually revised endings, ruptured psyches! Last year they made you weep with the spectacle of a three-ring movie studio on the verge of bankruptcy, only to be saved at the last minute by the world-renowned Paramount Pictures! And now, for their most stupendous caper, never before attempted on any stage . . . One From the Heart! It will be presented-without the sponsorship of Paramount-at the legendary Radio City Music Hall in the heart of glamorous Manhattan! So come! See a high-wire artiste, a pratfalling clown, a man who shoots himself from cannons...
...Soviets, Oakes is asked to fake a forced landing in the U.S.S.R. and allow a packet of forged documents to fall into enemy hands. The aim of this counterespionage is to neutralize a Soviet agent and drive a wedge into Chinese-Soviet relations. Can Blackie pull off this caper and get home in time for such bourgeois sentimentality as marrying his sweetheart and celebrating Christmas? Not to worry; the East and West love to swap important captured agents at any time of the year...