Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ungar's good fortune; he is the first writer to enter the monolith without being censored upon leaving. The result is the first assessment of the bureau's 50-year history--and the man who must be considered synonomous with those years, its director, J. Edgar Hoover--that can claim some degree of objectivity. Other journalists have asked for the bureau's assistance in writing about the FBI and the man that many agents continue to call "the Director" despite Hoover's death four years ago. But unless they happened to have been friends with Hoover or came from newspapers...
POLITICAL statements in the form of social realism sometimes tend toward the heavy-handed; once made, the author's point is frequently pounded into the audience until the art form loses any claim to verisimilitude. In an effort to avoid this trap--and Stalin's censors, since The Dragon was written in the Soviet Union in 1943--Yevgeny Schwarz has turned to allegory, drawing on the Russian folk tradition to disguise a commentary on his country. Dragons, heroes, talking animals and flying carpets people his work, giving his play an outward simplicity that underlines his final statement...
...allowing Person's clients to sell shares in the outcome of the suit to finance the costs (estimated at $1 million) of the action, which is already 5½ years old. While Federal Judge John F. Dooling Jr. did not rule directly on Person's claim, he has issued an opinion strongly implying that the lawyer has a point...
...another, her presence on the Evening News could make it one of the most profitable news programs on television (though the networks claim to lose money on their total news operations, their accounting systems make it impossible to be certain they do). Television networks can charge advertisers higher rates if a program's audience increases, and a single additional ratings point for the ABC Evening News could be worth as much as $2.7 million a year in extra ad revenue. That alone would mean a 170% profit on the Walters investment. Some television industry experts believe that Walters could...
After all, he was a scruffy kid whose only claim to fame was one hit single, "Mr. Bojangles," and that several years before. His voice wasn't much, kind of scratchy and whiney and not very melodic, and the only reason he got any attention at all in Austin was that the competition was so sparse. Besides, his music was sort of eclectic--maybe some would say incoherent--and it didn't really fit into any category. It wasn't exactly country, but it wasn't folk, and it was a long way from rock...