Word: cloaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...UNIVERSITY has formally recognized the practice of awarding credit for NROTC courses taken at MIT. The majority opinion attempts to cloak the obvious significance of this act by dismissing it as a legitimization of de facto policy. But any step of this kind, no matter how small, implicitly endorses the program and brings it one step closer to campus...
...organizing families deprive people of old models of authority which, while inadequate, provided a resting place on the road to maturity. Therapy is being used, Lasch argues, not to help but to confuse and to take advantage of people; in the workplace, especially, psychological legerdemain is used to cloak management's lack of substantive responses to the needs of working people...
Just one day before Miller was arrested, federal authorities nabbed two other suspects in unrelated, but equally intriguing, cloak-and-dagger cases...
...outset, director Baker craftily disguises the plot beneath the cloak of family tragedy. Jennifer (Meg Tilly), a small town ballerina, has gone to study dance in New York, where she meets her soon-to-be boyfriend Stuart (Tim Matheson). Stuart is a cultured yuppie finishing up his medical residency. Yet no sooner do Jennifer and Stuart become involved, than Jennifer's mother discovers the romance, and during an accusatory phone call, shoots herself. Jennifer and Stuart race home to the rural Midwestern town where Jennifer's mother lives, and the plot quickly takes on a surreal glaze...
...critic, wit and, in Baker's opinion, arch-poseur, Alexander Woollcott. Just as Mr. Baker had told me he would, Woollcott--even out in the sticks--insisted on holding the curtain 15 minutes, so he could make a dramatic appearance, swooping down the center aisle, complete with opera cloak and gold-topped walking stick...