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Stetson's sidelong Lady Di glances are engaging and coy, but she does not convey the flamboyance one might expect of a woman who finds the need to publish her memoirs at age 19. At times her voice leaves the realm of the play to rise to a higher level of detachment, like a narrator on her own life...
...guarantees Agee an $805,000 annual salary for five years even if he is fired. That lucrative arrangement was presumably authorized by the board's compensation committee and approved by the directors, as is typical in such cases. But at Bendix there was a twist. Equitable Life Chairman Coy Eklund, a Bendix director and member of its compensation committee, is partly beholden to Agee for his own $594,794 in 1981 salary and bonuses. Reason: Agee is an Equitable director and sits on its compensation committee...
...Caspar Weinberger argued that subtlety had proved futile in dealing with Israel; sanctions were now necessary. George Shultz, who has kept a notably low profile since he took over as Secretary of State, expressed exasperation with the Israelis, but was reluctant to recommend harsh steps. "Shultz is playing it coy," says a White House official. "He doesn't want to go out on a limb by confirming the Israelis' worst suspicions...
...deploy rational argument against such dreck? Professor Dominguez's own confession to an "antiquarian and deeply sexist" bias is the same horribly coy refusal to tackle his own destructive prejudices that I have seen again and again among men his age. It has probably constituted the Harvard faculty's most powerful--because unanswerable--defense against what it perceives as the invasion of hordes of Amazonian scholars, armed with Ph.D.'s (and Lord knows who gave them those), shrill voices, and--worst of all--the gall (shall we say) to call a mild-mannered male professor in his own home during...
...said Ronald Reagan at his press conference last week, in what seemed a conciliatory, almost inviting gesture. For members of Congress traumatized by the prospect of enacting the President's fiscal 1983 budget, which projects a $91.5 billion deficit despite more politically painful spending cuts, Reagan's coy hint of compromise was in welcome contrast to his previous "put up or shut up" attitude toward critics. Nonetheless, the President insisted, there should be no tampering with his plan to add $34 billion to defense spending and to cut $91.6 billion in taxes next year...