Word: couchful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...humanistic concern for black South Africans, is one of endorsement but not one of commitment. If a company or investor is unwilling to make the commitment to this "nonviolent revolution," Sullivan says, it should divest, or withdraw from South Africa. It definitely should not attempt to couch its inaction and legitimize its self-interest through a hollow dedication to the Sullivan principles...
...does it perfectly, beginning with the Bel-Air, ending with the Montecito. This may seem a small felicity, but it is precisely the sort of thing that writers of parboiled Hollywood romans à clef usually get wrong or skip altogether in their haste to get to the casting couch and the boudoir...
When we arrive, there is someone sleeping on one of the couches, but the bunk bed is unused. The atmosphere is informal. A few chairs and a couch surround a low table with four phone banks on it. The walls are filled with practical information--the phone numbers of hospitals, shelters, advocates for the poor, other counselling services, a chart of information on the synergistic effects of various combinations of drugs, a list of people who aren't allowed to crash there anymore because they were abusing the temporary service. There are voluminous files, and sign-up sheets for hotline...