Word: circuitous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...place inhabited by all manner of fakes, fakirs, savants, pseudos and seers. It is the testing ground of gullibility and genius, and sometimes these are just the qualities Shepard exhibits. When he tips to one side, he's our best playwright and he has the ability to short circuit the intellect with all the subtlety of a file on the teeth. When he tips in the other direction, his short circuits more resemble the random firing of brain synapses and he is in danger, as Tom McGuane says of "being trapped in a globe of his own hallucinatory despair...
...agency counterintelligence supervisor in Chicago, Poland is particularly active in the pirating of corporate data. Says Kaiser: "While the Soviet KGB gets all the press, Polish intelligence is perhaps superior. They, however, could care less about military intelligence; they want economic and scientific secrets. Their objective is to short-circuit development costs and undersell us." And, as the Zacharski case suggests, they are good at finding friends in the right places...
...funding won't erase the worst of Longwood's problems, however. The tournament will probably never rebound until its directors recognize the need for substantial professional help in running the affair. As professional tennis has turned big time, so has the organization of most stops along the Grand Prix circuit. Though the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) has been nominally involved since 1975 with supervising Longwood, only in the last two years have ATP experts been on hand before the tourney, and only in an advisory capacity. The long-established clique that has traditionally monopolized tourney direction continues...
...FREE FALL in Crimson the figure of evil is taken on by an outlaw biker Passionate women, Hollywood frauds, greedy do wells, a weird director making a disaster movie, about a hot air balloon meet, the queen of the TV game show circuit, and a selection of wealthy sophiticates--all make appearances. Each plays a role in what is certainly a formula; but the formula is rendered with such simplicity and compassiong and strong prose that Free Fall In Crimson is wholly irresistible...
...served as a deck officer on Navy oilers during World War II, "bored to death 99% of the time, and scared to death 1%." After three years of Wall Street he retired to Cincinnati. In 1954 Stewart was named to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, becoming at 39 the youngest federal appellate judge in the country. Four years later, President Eisenhower nominated him for the Supreme Court...