Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...death. The New York Post recounted Kennedy's recent dates and romantic interests and printed a poem reportedly written by him while in a drug-rehabilitation facility. In the Los Angeles Times last week, Diane Broughton, a writer and cable television talk-show host, felt compelled to correct the story that David Kennedy was alone in a hotel room 16 years ago when he saw his father's assassination on television. Broughton, then a campaign worker for Senator Kennedy, says that she was babysitting with six of the Kennedy brood that night, including the twelve-year-old David...
...Gemayel, Karami unveiled his new plan last week. It surprised most Lebanese and enraged many. For although the proposed Cabinet prudently included representatives from all six of Lebanon's main religious groups, it had only ten seats, and it distributed them in a manner that did less to correct the underrepresentation of Shi'ites and Druze in Lebanese politics than to compound it. Shi'ite Leader Nabih Berri, 44, was given the relatively unimportant portfolio of Justice, Water and Electricity; Druze Chieftain Walid Jumblatt, 35, was offered Transport, Public Works and Tourism. Said one prominent Sunni powerbroker...
...Aurora's sentimentality-because, MacLaine explains, the character is not at ease with her body. The model for Aurora, she adds, was the late Martha Mitchell, wife of former Attorney General John Mitchell: "I had met her on the same book-flogging tour. She was an American heroine, correct and courageous, but with levels of instability-at dinner one night, we changed tables seven times." MacLaine believes that Mitchell's spirit was with her as she made the film. Says she: "If I ran into any problems, I would call on her, 'Hey, Martha, help...
Finally, I wish to express my dismay that such a biased piece survived the editing process. The May I issue of your paper lists one "News Editor" and two "Night Editors." Did none of them think to read the story and correct it before printing it? Or have these editors seen so many references to alleged "procedural arguments" in the stories written by the reporter in question that they have come to accept allegation as fact...
Miss Manners' idea of democracy is a society in which the upper and lower classes revere the same standard of graciousness, Martin wrote in her national bestseller, "Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behaviour," a 700-page volume which deals with etiquette dilemmas from circumcision rites to old family silver...