Word: circuitous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...husband (Leo Rossi) may have a streak of envy that festers into malice, but he is portrayed sympathetically as a man incapable of understanding that his no-nonsense housewife could beat him at a man's game. Connie Kalitta, Shirley's lover once she hits the circuit, is a hell-raising womanizer, but in Beau Bridges' engaging performance one can see Connie as an endangered species in a game that TV is trying to streamline into respectability. "This used to be a rowdy sport," Connie recalls. "Now they want to make us into damn ... golf...
...American conservative movement with the publication of his critique of alma mater, God and Man at Yale. His accomplishments would make the most energetic resume suffer blanche: editor and founder of his own conservative magazine (Reagan's announced favorite), television talk show host, syndicated newspaper columnist, lecture circuit fixture at $4,000 a fix, United Nations delegate under Nixon, and guru to conservatives everywhere...
...that same day, lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union had been frantically busy. Led by Stefan Presser in Marshall, Texas, the attorneys, who were newly involved in the case, saw their petitions turned down by two state courts, then by a federal district court. Presser asked the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to consider his motion for a stay. With no time for the parties to get together, the hearing was convened through a 68-minute conference call, with three appeals judges listening from Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas while Presser and Assistant State Attorney General Leslie Benitez talked from...
...Supreme Court, Justice Byron White, who oversees the Fifth Circuit, was standing by for a possible new plea in the Autry case. While the circuit court's opinion was being read into a Supreme Court tape recorder, Alvin Bronstein, executive director of the A.C.L.U.'s National Prison Project, was sitting in the lobby writing out in longhand an application to stay the execution. As he wrote, the lights flickered on and off, a consequence of the drain on the building's electrical system caused by the refrigeration of historic documents in glass cases in the lobby. Only...
...their firms on the fast track. It is Topic A in seminars, skull sessions and water-cooler chitchat. Excellence themes have suddenly turned up in the advertising campaigns of businesses as diverse as the U.S. Postal Service and Bloomingdale's, the chic department-store chain. On the lecture circuit, Peters and Waterman each command up to $15,000 an appearance...