Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case for evading the court's directives. Citing "this critical hour" in world affairs, Nixon argued that "there are those in the international community who may be tempted by our Watergate-related difficulties at home to misread America's unity and resolve in meeting the challenges we confront abroad." The Middle East crisis, he contended, made it imperative that the lingering tapes controversy be settled promptly...
...mark than Claire Bloom's airy Nora, a stage performance recently translated to film (TIME, June 18). One thing Fonda manages well is the delicate transition behind the closed bedroom door. As in the play, we do not see Nora change, but when Fonda comes out again to confront Torvald and prepare to leave, the viewer feels he can calibrate the painful inches by which the decision has been reached. Her fire and intelligence cause all the melodrama in the moment to fall aside and reveal a hard truth...
Radcliffe's second opponent, Boston College, will confront the notice water-poloists next Wednesday night...
Obviously displeased that Mastriana's allegations were brought out prematurely by Percy, Jackson suspended further testimony until next week, when Roosevelt is scheduled to return to Washington and confront his accuser. It could be quite an encounter. Mastriana's police record includes arrests for gambling, grand larceny, forgery, aggravated assault and possession of the contents of stolen mail. Three years ago, he was declared mentally incompetent by a New Jersey court. "He's the greatest bull artist in the world," a Florida police official said of Mastriana last week...
Undaunted, the program kicked off the new season with a two-parter on alcoholism, and in future will confront the Supreme Court's ruling on pornography (as it applies to a fund-raising show for Maude's local library). Later in the season Maude will even have a face-lifting, after conceding that she feels "like an old hen with a turkey's neck and crow's-feet-I could be the centerfold for the Audubon Society." Her on-camera rejuvenation will be accomplished with tape and makeup, but the idea for the show came from...