Word: cramping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...idea, of course, is pretty farfetched. Besides, though Strauss would disagree, the Oval Office might cramp his style. Is Mikhail Gorbachev in town? Strauss -- and Gorbachev -- are at Mrs. Reagan's table for the state dinner. (Helen Strauss, his wife of 46 years, is at a distant table, seated between Caspar Weinberger and Meadowlark Lemon of Harlem Globetrotters fame.) Is William F. Buckley using his TV show to conduct presidential campaign debates? Strauss is co-Grand Inquisitor. When bad blood develops between House Speaker Jim Wright and Secretary of State George Shultz over Nicaragua, Strauss mediates. When a new bipartisan...
...only genre chilled by contemporary sexual skirmishing. In Armyan Bernstein's comedy Cross My Heart, two nice people (Martin Short and Annette O'Toole) endure the Date of Death. He borrows his best friend's car and apartment; one is stolen, the other trashed. She gets a leg cramp while they make out; he sees his shirt get singed on a nearby lamp as they make love. She won't tell him she has a young daughter; he won't tell her he has just lost his job. This sweet, slightly strained film finds knowing laughs in all the frustrations...
...Richard. Chapters are devoted to each of Berry's three jail terms (for armed robbery as a teenager, for a Mann Act violation in the '60s and for tax evasion in the '70s). Every 16 years or so, he would emerge from prison and savor freedom without letting it cramp his style. "My next fall is due around year end of 1996," he observes, "so I have a while yet." Chuck Berry is never likely to be out on good behavior...
...drink in one hand, peanut in the other. Good view of the vast maple dance floor. Impressive crowd for three in the afternoon. Mostly old people. Here and there one partner looks so infirm it must be like dancing with a bedpost, but it doesn't seem to cramp the active one, who twirls like a top, shaking a mean leg in the bargain...
Civil libertarians suggested the ruling will cramp the style of broadcasters as well as the range of subjects they are willing to discuss. Barry Lynn, an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer in Washington, D.C., noted that Stern's monologues may be rude, but they are not lewd and are "well within the bounds of protected bad taste" as guaranteed by the First Amendment. David Salniker, executive director of the Pacifica Foundation, which operates one of the stations reprimanded by the FCC, argued that the agency is far too vague about where it is drawing the line. "Does this mean that...